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With Madam President, current cohost of The View and former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace returns with an electrifying portrait of three powerful women on a day that will change the country forever.Charlotte Kramer, the forty-fifth President of the United States, has done the unprecedented in allowing a network news team to document a day in her life - and that of her most senior staff. But while twenty news cameras are embedded with the president, the unthinkable happens: five major attacks are leveled on US soil. Her secretary of defense, Melanie, and her press secretary, Dale, must instantly jump to action in supporting the president and reassuring the country that the safety they treasure is in capable hands. But secrets have always thrived in President Kramer's White House.
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Nicolle Wallace is a bestselling author and political commentator who appears regularly on news programs such as ABC's Good Morning America, Fox News' Sean Hannity and Morning Joe on MSNBC. Wallace, who served as communications chief for George W. Bush's White House and re-election campaign, was credited with "injecting a tremendous amount of realism" into White House deliberations. According to the Washington Post, she served as "a voice for more openness with reporters" (Washington Post, June 28, 2006) . The New York Times story announcing her presidential appointment carried the headline: "New Aide Aims to Defrost the Press Room" (January 10, 2005) . Wallace was described by former colleagues as "very persuasive in the halls of the West Wing. "Wallace also served as senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008. She appeared frequently on network and cable news programs as the campaign's top spokesman and defender. Wallace is a California native and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She lives in New York City and Connecticut with her husband, Mark, a former Ambassador to the United Nations, and their vizsla, Lilly. Eighteen Acres is her first novel.
