FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends

by Willis; Resa

• ISBN13: 9780415980135
• ISBN10: 0415980135
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-06-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Now in paperback, "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 the president'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 his wife and mother.

Author Biography

Resa Willis is Professor of English at Drury University

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
INTRODUCTION	xiii
CHAPTER 1 "While I am alive"	1	(10)
CHAPTER 2 "Rich in heritage if not funds"	11	(7)
CHAPTER 3 "Inexorably drawn to each other"	18	(6)
CHAPTER 4 "Part of the family"	24	(8)
CHAPTER 5 "Not willing to step aside"	32	(13)
CHAPTER 6 "Like an English peer"	45	(12)
CHAPTER 7 "Please tell Franklin"	57	(12)
CHAPTER 8 "I hear that you are a grandfather"	69	(10)
CHAPTER 9 "Mr. President"	79	(12)
CHAPTER 10 "Bless you as ever. L"	91	(12)
CHAPTER 11 "Your dear blessed and capable hands"	103	(8)
CHAPTER 12 "I am alone"	111	(10)
CHAPTER 13 "His beloved presence"	121	(13)
CHAPTER 14 "He seems very anxious to have his portrait done now"	134	(10)
CHAPTER 15 "One of the greatest men that ever lived"	144	(9)
NOTES	153	(20)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	173	(4)
INDEX	177