First in Line

Bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower introduces us to the second-most-powerful men in the world, exploring the lives and roles of thirteen modern vice presidents?eight Republicans and five Democrats?and the lives of their wives, who are known as the Second Lady. In interviews with more than two hundred people, including all six living former vice presidents, their family members, insiders, and confidants, Brower pulls back the curtain to reveal the sometimes close, often chilly, and always complicated relationship between our modern presidents and their vice presidents. She shares surprising revelations about the relationship between former vice president Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama and how Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump interact behind closed doors.