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Lucy
Lucy
Author: Ellen Feldman
An utterly absorbing novel about a famous political marriage and an epic infidelity. — On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, fell in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbled on their letters and divorce was discussed, b...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780393051537
ISBN-10: 0393051536
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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2.6 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2
Nice novelized version of the affair between FDR and Lucy Mercer. Don't take if for fact, however.
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Helpful Score: 2
Based on recently discovered materials and incorporating a never-before published footnote to the affair between FDR and Lucy Mercer, this book is a remarkably sensitive insight into the private lives behind a public marriage.
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Helpful Score: 1
An unknown small piece of history, very interesting reading.
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Interesting and entertaining book. Gave me a different view of FDR and Eleanor.


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