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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-416) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Franklin and Lucy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

172521674

Responsibility statement

Joseph E. Persico

Sub title

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

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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