Tag: Elizabeth Edwards

The Takeaway

Elizabeth Edwards On Resilience

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Elizabeth Edwards lost her son Wade when he was 16. She is living with terminal cancer. She has been through two presidential campaigns. Now she is, very publicly, coming to terms with her husband’s infidelity. What it takes to get through these tough times is the subject of her new book: Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities. Elizabeth Edwards joins The Takeaway to discuss the message of her book and her decision to write it.

Here's Elizabeth Edwards on Oprah:

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The Takeaway

The Ethics of Elizabeth Edwards

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Elizabeth Edward's latest round of interviews about her husband's affair has gotten our friend Randy Cohen thinking: Is she wrong to put her family through this again, just to promote her latest book? (It's called Resilience, by the way.) Randy Cohen is The Ethicist, columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and the author of the new Moral of the Story blog.

Here's Elizabeth Edwards discussing her husband's affair with Oprah:

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