{"product_id":"9781940130835","title":"American Evita: Lurleen Wallace","description":"Governor Lurleen Wallace of Alabama and Evita Peron, First Lady of Argentina, were women in their time, but were not women of their time.\u003cp\u003eBorn in the same era, both first ladies-of rural, humble birth, who did not graduate from high school-emerged as charismatic leaders; the trajectories of their high-profile achievements and dramatic life journeys paralleling in astonishing chrysalis patterns, eclipsing the political Suns of the steely-eyed, more educated, men of expediency they married.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir husbands kept from each, the identical life-threatening medical secret. Their humanitarian legacies endure beyond each woman's early, poignant death from the same cause. Their husbands' self-focused legacies proved gossamer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrative nonfiction: AMERICAN EVITA: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLURLEEN WALLACE is award-winning author Janice Law's sixth book. Her 2006 nonfiction diary of her first year as a Texas criminal court judge was a nonfiction finalist for the 2007 Texas Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the founder of American Women Writers National Museum in Washington, D.C. a non-profit charity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Horse Media Group LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039756468464,"sku":"9781940130835","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940130835_p0.jpg?v=1763668492","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940130835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}