Connie Schultz and her husband, Sherrod Brown, were eating a restaurant with a local democratic chapter when Brown, for the seventh time in two days, announced his intentions to run for the senate, and in a state, Ohio, where no democrat had won statewide office in twelve years, no less. The party chairman introduced Brown from his podium, and, for the first time, introduced Schultz as “his lovely wife”. Now, a year later, that lovely wife, also a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, brings us this: His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man, her memoir of a year on the campaign trail. From her “lovely wife” position, she could see the workings of her husband’s campaign better than all most anyone else: the sacrifices, both personal and professional, the new-found responsibilities of being a political wife, the endless chin-wagging, and the day to rigors of political life (including those nasty bloggers!). Schultz captures all these details in a witty and intelligent tone, much the same tone she used in her NPR interview, which you may listen to here.