Edwardses Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades privacy for payback

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 6, 2009 8:34 AM CDT

(Newser) – Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “... Read full story »

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