“A historic first,” says Dave Barlow of Wandering Sage Publishing. “A First Lady who chooses not to stand by her husband, but to stand up for her dignity and then her country. Full of twists and turns, a White House filled with cronies, chicanery and a gang of First Ladies past. An amusing, but not far-fetched spoof of American politics with an ending unlike any in the long annals of the affairs of state.”

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Ted Venetoulis’ impressive political resume includes having served on Capitol Hill as a congressional aide, in campaigns for local and national candidates including John and Robert Kennedy, and as Baltimore County Executive, a position held by Spiro Agnew before he became vice president. He was also a Maryland gubernatorial candidate in 1978. Venetoulis previously hosted an award-winning television news magazine, Edition Eleven, and authored The House Shall Choose, which chronicles the two elections determined by the House of Representatives.

Venetoulis currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Corridor Media, Inc., a regional business and political news magazine serving the Baltimore Washington corridor. He has taught courses on politics and the media at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College. He has been the leader of efforts to return the Baltimore Sun to local ownership and is recognized nationally for his knowledge of the various approaches to restructuring and salvaging the newspaper industry.