Why They Stay is about the lives of politically married women who have stood by their men after sex scandals. It covers Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Silda Wall Spitzer, Huma Abedin Weiner and several others. ORDER A COPY BY CLICKING HERE.

Marriage is a mysterious thing and political unions are even more so. In the engrossing and important Why They Stay Anne Michaud peers into the heart of some of the most famously troubled political marriages of the past 100 years in an attempt to understand why accomplished women ranging from Hillary Clinton to Silda Spitzer put up with men many others would have quickly kicked to the curb. Her  answers will no doubt influence how we think about these scandals going forward -- not to mention the ones still to come.

--Helaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish

It’s a story we’ve heard often: Prominent politicians suddenly find themselves ensnared in humiliatingly public sex scandals, but their wives decide to stay with them. With a prodigious amount of research and deft storytelling skill, Anne Michaud goes beyond the headlines and explores the stories of both spouses, on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing the pain, the loyalty, and the calculations behind the wives’ decisions. Every political couple should read it.

-- Bob Keeler, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Anne Michaud breathes life into headlines that I thought I knew so well with fresh details about well-known political spouses like Hillary Clinton, Silda Wall Spitzer and Huma Abedin. Her thorough reporting helps cast them into an entirely new light to show how their personal struggles reflect the internal struggles women have faced for centuries.

-- Christine Haughney, former New York Times staff reporter

I found it really interesting, meticulously researched and well-documented. Why They Stay doesn't revert to sensationalism but really goes to the question of why they stay in the marriage.

-- Stephen F. Medici, author of The Girls in Pleated Skirts