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Jul 04, 2016laphampeak rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A worthy historic fiction! Lorena Hickok, an ambitious female reporter, finds a place in Eleanor Roosevelt's life during a time when women were emerging in the 1930's. The author takes us through the relationship between the two at a time when FDR held four terms in office, the Great Depression was having it's affects, racism was rampant, and eventually Pearl Harbor was bombed, Hitler started his crusade, and the NY World's Fair was offering the future. It's the telling of a story that has it's roots in balancing secretism and freedom to express love to a woman, ER, who was in the spotlight and committed to so much that she was called The First Lady of the World. Lorena Hick was an accomplished reporter and historic author and Susan Wittig Albert does an outstanding job to bring breadth to the telling.