Loving Eleanor [electronic resource] : A Novel

Susan Albert2016

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Summary

When A.P. political reporter Lorena HickokHickis assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship that ends only with both women's deaths in the 1960sall of it documented by 3,300 letters exchanged over 30 years. Now, New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert recreates the fascinating story of Hick and Eleanor, set during the chaotic years of the Great Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War. Loving Eleanor is Hick's personal story, revealing Eleanor as a complex, contradictory and entirely human woman who is pulled in many directions by her obligations to her husband and family and her role as the nation's First Lady, as well as by a compelling need to care and be...