\"Documents the American landscape as seen by two intelligent, influential women who loved their country, and each other, with a passion that is rare.\" -- New York Times Book Review In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, \"Your mother wasn't always so very discreet in her letters to me\"), the find was still electrifying enough to create controversy about the nature of the women's relationship. Historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated more than 300 of those letters-published here for the first time-and put them within the context of the lives of these two extraordinary women, allowing us to understand the role of this remarkable friendship in Roosevelt's transformation into a crusading First Lady.
In 1933, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt moved into the White House and with them moved journalist Lorena Hickock. Known as Hick to her friends, Lorena tells the story of her passionate relationship with the First Lady, a relationship that shaped the rest of their lives.
"It's so funny to read historians claiming Eleanor was a sheltered Victorian that wouldn't know a lesbian if she fell across one, and I'm like, How can you imagine that to be true, given the evidence of her life?"
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
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Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt walks with James Bourne and Lorena Hickok on a trip to Puerto Rico, March 17, 1934. .
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into a complex marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Even as Eleanor accepted her husband's infatuations with other women, David Michaelis notes here, Eleanor explored her attraction to younger men and to women, particularly reporter Lorena Hickok. Michaelis explores how Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, FDR's proxy in the White House, and in widowhood, a tireless advocate of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
Eleanor Roosevelt had a years-long affair with Lorena 'Hick' Hickok, who was assigned to cover the First Lady for the Associated Press when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933.
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