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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395660807
ISBN-139780395660805
eBay Product ID (ePID)859173
Product Key Features
Book TitleClosest Companion
TopicGeneral, Presidents & Heads of State, Social Themes / Friendship
Publication Year1995
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorGeoffrey C. Ward
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight28 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-045394
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal973.917/092/2 B
SynopsisFranklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage was famously difficult, and it is widely known that FDR enjoyed the company of women. But this remarkable book reveals a secret that has been carefully guarded for more than half a century: Roosevelt's closest companion during the last years of his life was his sixth cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley. FDR became friendly with Daisy in the 1920s and invited her to his first inauguration in 1933. The friendship deepened; then, on a September afternoon in 1935, their feelings for each other intensified dramatically. From that day until FDR's death in 1945, Daisy and the president were intimate companions. But the secret of this passionate relationship remained hidden until after Daisy's death in 1991, when her family found a battered suitcase under her bed. Stuffed inside were years of diaries and letters, including thirty-eight letters in FDR's own hand that no one had ever seen. Now Geoffrey Ward, the eminent historian and biographer, has woven th
LC Classification NumberE807.S89 1995
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- 11. Dez. 2019
Comes highly recommended!
Really a remarkable book about an even more remarkable relationship. I could not put it down! Ward is a fine writer and researcher.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 23. Okt. 2019
FDR and daisy
A real insight to Franklin Roosevelt's personal life. It shows how the relationship with daisy sulley helped him during one of the most critical time in historyBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
