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1) Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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...