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FDR and Lucy : lovers and friends / Resa Willis.
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- Author/Creator:
- Willis, Resa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Friends and associates.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Relations with women.
- Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Social secretaries.
- Relations with women.
- Friends and associates.
- United States.
- Social secretaries--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 182 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lucy
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Summary:
- FDR and Lucy is the first published account of the love affair between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, his wife's secretary.
- While the rest of America seemed to know about Franklin's infidelity, Eleanor declined to acknowledge the situation for four years until, in 1918, the truth became impossible to deny. Unable to divorce, FDR and Eleanor began a political marriage that would only fuel the first lady's groundbreaking activism. One part historical account and one part love story, FDR and Lucy is a biography of an affair, revealing a man in need of comfort and respite from the cares of the presidency and the critical eyes of both wife and mother.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "While I am alive" 1
- Chapter 2 "Rich in heritage if not funds" 11
- Chapter 3 "Inexorably drawn to each other" 18
- Chapter 4 "Part of the family" 24
- Chapter 5 "Not willing to step aside" 32
- Chapter 6 "Like an English peer" 45
- Chapter 7 "Please tell Franklin" 57
- Chapter 8 "I hear that you are a grandfather" 69
- Chapter 9 "Mr. President" 79
- Chapter 10 "Bless you as ever. L" 91
- Chapter 11 "Your dear blessed and capable hands" 103
- Chapter 12 "I am alone" 111
- Chapter 13 "His beloved presence" 121
- Chapter 14 "He seems very anxious to have his portrait done now" 134
- Chapter 15 "One of the greatest men that ever lived" 144.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415948045
- OCLC:
- 55518003
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