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Review: "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld

AMERICAN WIFE, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Random House, 558 pp., 26.

Who is Laura Bush?

In our all-access/ maximum-exposure/ staged-reality tabloid culture, she is a mega-celebrity who has managed to be completely invisible, a blank slate upon whom we can project our notions of womanhood - as much a living litmus test as her polar opposite, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to whom people reflexively...

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