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Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life

By Joseph E , Roosevelt , Eleanor;Roosevelt , Franklin Delano;Rutherfurd , Lucy Mercer;Persico

Book information

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2008
ISBN
9781588367259, 1588367258
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4570053 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
(xii, 443 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates;Roosevelt-- 1882-1945 -- Marriage;Rutherfu-- 1882-1945 -- Relations with women;RooseveltFranklin D. -- (Franklin Delano)HISTORY--United States--State & Local--General;Pre

Description

In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E. Persico explores FDR's romance with Lucy Rutherfurd (which was far deeper and lasted much longer than was previously acknowledged). Persico also shows how FDR's infidelity as a husband contributed to Eleanor's eventual transformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatest American woman of her century; how the shaping hand of FDR's strong-willed mother helped to imbue him with the resolve to overcome personal and public adversity throughout his life; and how other women around FDR, including his "surrogate spouse," Missy LeHand, and his close confidante, the obscure Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, completed the world that he inhabited.--From amazon.com.

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