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Video: 'Why They Stay' presentation at authors lunch

"Perhaps this sort of marriage, at the top echelons of Washington and international society, was made from different rules than I had agreed to when I married. Fidelity, honesty—perhaps these were quaint ideas better suited to less ambitious people."

Anne Michaud, Interactive Editor for Newsday Opinion, talks about her new know, "Why They Stay." http://annemichaud.com/why-they-stay/ What makes women stay in a political marriage after a highly public infidelity? Why They Stay looks through the lens of marital tradition and at nine philandering politicians (including FDR, JFK, Clinton, Eliot Spitzer and Weiner), whose wives have stayed with them--for years or forever.

Anne speaks about her book Why They Stay to an audience of nearly 200 people gathered on Long Island for the first annual Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library author's luncheon.

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