Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

Why They Stay explores the reasoning and motivation of wives who stay after their politician-husbands cheat. Hillary Clinton couldn't have known in 1998 how her husband's high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She couldn't be sure, but she took the gamble. Had she left the marriage, today she might be the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to run for president on a major party ticket. Looking back on the p...