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Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
- Title
- Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life / Joseph E. Persico.
- Author
- Persico, Joseph E.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2008]
- ©2008
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- Description
- xii, 443 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
- Subjects
- Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 > Friends and associates
- Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography
- Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer
- Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 > Relations with women
- Social secretaries > United States > Biography
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 > Marriage
- Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 > Marriage
- Presidents > United States > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-416) and index.
- 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 -- 1941: year of gain, year of loss -- Missy protected, Lucy 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-3786
- ISBN
- 9781400064427
- 1400064422
- LCCN
- 2007036851
- OCLC
- 172521674
- Author
- Persico, Joseph E., author.
- Title
- Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life / Joseph E. Persico.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [2008]
- Copyright Date
- ©2008
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-416) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-3786