Elizabeth Edwards: How I Survived John's Affair

On May 3, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards acknowledged that a federal investigation had been opened into whether his campaign improperly gave money to a woman with whom Edwards had an extramarital affair . Edwards has denied any wrongdoing by his campaign. In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Resilience , Edwards' wife Elizabeth describes her reaction to learning of the affair in late 2006.

John was gone a lot in 2003 and 2004 running for office, and although I saw him all the time in 2005 when I was getting treatment for breast cancer, I...