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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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An account of the close relationship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok shares insights into how their decades-long friendship transformed their lives and empowered them to play significant roles in a tumultuous period in American history.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When A.P. 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...
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