Blount, Roy, Jr. First hubby. New York: Villard Books, 1990. ISBN 0-394-57420-6.

Summary: In his youth, a journalist meets and falls in love with a smart, attractive, crusading civil-rights protester. They marry and have children. Much later, she becomes the first woman president of the United States, and the journalist gets to be the first male First Lady. Although he believes strongly in the equality of the sexes and the political rights of women, he also feels awkward and out of place in his new role, and somewhat envious of the comparative ease with which his spouse settles into her position of authority. First hubby is the journalist's rambling and disorderly account of how these things came to happen and how he feels about them.

There are two interesting points of similarity between First hubby and the television program Commander-in-chief, which also posits a woman president. In both, the woman is elected to be vice-president and succeeds to the presidency after the death of her male running mate. And in both the woman does not belong to either of the major political parties. I imagine that both Blount and the writers of Commander-in-chief are trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience and think that their characters will be more sympathetic if they are introduced in this way -- but there's something sad about this marketing decision.