| ISBN |
9780989203548 (hbk.) |
| 0989203549 (hbk.) |
| Name |
Albert, Susan Wittig author. |
| Title |
Loving Eleanor : a novel / Susan Wittig Albert. |
| Published |
Bertram, Texas Persevero Press, [2016] |
| ©2016 |
| Description |
322 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Notes |
"The intimate friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickock"--Cover. |
| Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-318) |
| Summary |
When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok--Hick--is 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 1960s--all of it documented by 3300 letters exchanged over thirty 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 cared for. For her part, Hick is revealed as an accomplished journalist, who, at the pinnacle of her career, gives it all up for the woman she loves. |
| Subjects |
Roosevelt, Eleanor, -- 1884-1962 -- Fiction |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor, -- 1884-1962 -- Correspondence -- Fiction |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor, -- 1884-1962 -- Friends and associates -- Fiction |
| Hickok, Lorena A. -- Fiction |
| Hickok, Lorena A. -- Correspondence -- Fiction |
| Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Correspondence -- Fiction |
| Female friendship -- Fiction |
| United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction |
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