11, 2001 - for the most part Schultz’s memoir does a good job of capturing the all-consumingness of a campaign. If occasionally the book comes across as a bit forced -“I was stunned by DeWine’s trafficking in national tragedy for political gain,” she writes of the DeWine attack ad later discovered to feature doctored photos of the twin towers on Sept. “When you called I was just getting ready to vacuum my house. This doesn’t mean she shuns traditional gender roles, however. But as she relays it, it was often an issue on the campaign trail. It was the second marriage for both Schultz and Brown, and she’d had her own identity as a successful journalist for years before she met him in 2003. Schultz, a self-described “feminist” (who once named her daughter’s Cabbage Patch doll Gloria Steinem), also had to contend with questions about why, when she wed Brown in 2004, she hadn’t changed her last name. (Larke, who had remarried, and her husband even supported Brown’s bid.) Not one of us wanted to do this, but we wanted Mike DeWine to win even less,” she writes. “Larke could not have been more gracious. Later, she describes the experience of filming a campaign ad, which was never used, with Brown’s ex-wife, Larke, as a possible rebuttal should DeWine have decided to bring up Larke’s allegations of mistreatment during her and Brown’s 1986 divorce. Schultz and her dog, Gracie, successfully scared the men off, but it left her shaken. She got a rude awakening when, a couple of weeks into the campaign, she watched as two men in suits jumped out of a van and attempted to steal garbage from their driveway. Schultz’s transition to campaign wife wasn’t easy in other ways.Īside from an increasing sense of personal anonymity - “I … began to feel as if I were married to Cher,” she writes - there were the political dirty tricks to contend with. “Past 50 or 60 I stopped counting,” she says of being referred to as the “lovely wife.” “I realized it was driving me slowly insane.” The title is a play on the the standard introduction Schultz says she received more times than she’d care to remember. During the course of the campaign, the 49-year-old writer filled a stack of Moleskine notebooks “more than a foot high,” the contents of which ended up in “… and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man,” Schultz’s chatty new book about life as a campaign spouse.
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