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Book
Title:
Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
Other title(s):
President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
ISBN:
9781400064427
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Random House, [2008]
Physical Description:
xii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Scarlet Letters -- Master Franklin -- Poor Little Rich Girl -- From Riches to Rags -- A Harvard Man -- Courtship -- Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- "Dearest Mummy" -- Patrician Politician -- The Social Secretary -- Every Man who Knew Her Fell in Love -- The Extra Woman -- Inhibitions Snap Like Cobwebs -- The Homecoming -- The Storm -- The Advantage of Adversity -- A Brilliant Marriage -- The Diagnosis -- Missy -- Safe Harbor -- Eleanor and Friends -- Governor Roosevelt -- Eleanor and the State Trooper -- Eleanor and Hick -- "Close to Being a Wife" -- Four More Years -- Exit Hickok: Enter Schiff -- 941: Year of Gain, Year of Loss -- Missy Protected, Luy Indulged, Eleanor Outraged -- A Distant Cousin, a Cherished Daughter -- Anna's Dilemma -- "Mother was not Capable of Giving Him This" -- "We Must Speak in Riddles" -- The Death of a President -- Letters Lost and Found -- "Lucy was Father's Emotion for Life" -- First Lady of the World -- A Judgment.
Summary:
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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