Tomorrow is a big day for Elizabeth Edwards, the woman who's emerged from the dark shadow of her husband's failed 2008 presidential bid and his all-too-public affair. Tomorrow she'll be on Oprah and in the bookstores with her memoir Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities.
A survivor of many things -- cancer, marital infidelity, the death of a teenage child, and the kind of harsh media scrutiny that frequently tears apart candidates' wives -- she has become one of those few political spouses who has risen above her mate in the eyes of the public. While Edwards is now generally reviled, she is respected; many have expressed admiration for her apparent grace in the eye of the storm.
More on Elizabeth Edwards and Resilience can be found in two pieces from the New York Times: one from The Caucus blog featuring her heartbreaking reaction when she learned her husband had cheated on her and still wanted to run for president, and another which focuses on tomorrow's interview with Oprah.
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I really feel for her. I do NOT know what I would do in her position. It makes me so angry to think about all the ugly layers of what he did. But it also reminds me that, whatever I’m going through in my life, it’s not this bad! I guess if she can handle this, I can handle my stuff : )
A story as dark as Hyde and ¨¨Jerk-ill¨¨
Book is wonderful, it’s not about her husband affair but about her deep feelings of her son’s death, her illness, she is just perfect mother and wife, and I wish her only the best.
Attention to page 111 – Cain killed his brother Abel, not Abel killed Cain.
Melania