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Jill Biden knows people are mad about her new book. They’re mad that she’s only now disclosing that she thought her husband, former President Joe Biden, was having a stroke during his debate against Donald Trump. They’re mad that this book exists at all, picking at Democrats’ scabs from the 2024 presidential election. Not that anyone has expressed that anger to her face. There are the things she didn’t tell the American public, the things that Democrats are agitated to be revisiting now. She frames those decisions at the time as attempts to “stay out of the fray”—to “play by the rules” and “ignore the ludicrous attacks.” After the June 2024 debate and the discourse that followed, she writes that “the biggest lesson” was “that if you don’t explain something well enough then the question won’t go away.” There’s a paradox to being first lady, as Jill notes throughout the book—the risk of being seen as too involved in her husband’s presidency, or too hands-off. But she still wants to say her piece. Read more: 🔗www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/jill-biden-...