Eleanor's Nemesis, FDR's Other Love : Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd by Christine M. Totten (2018, Trade Paperback)

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LUCY MERCER RUTHERFURD: ELEANOR'S RIVAL, FDR'S OTHER LOVE By Christine M Totten **BRAND NEW**.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWerner Publications, Incorporated, Eliot

ISBN-100989824977

ISBN-139780989824972

eBay Product ID (ePID)234360627

Product Key Features

Number of Pages418 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEleanor's Nemesis, Fdr's Other Love : Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd

SubjectModern / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Political

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorChristine M. Totten

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight22.9 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2015-037590

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal973.917092 B

Table Of ContentPrologue: Ways to Discover Lucy I. Lucy as Miss Mercer Born of the Bluest Blood The Silver Spoon Slips Out Rescue from Overseas Return to Reality 1917-1918: Lucy and Eleanor Hidden Romance, Open Fallout II. Lucy as Mrs. Winthrop Rutherfund Eleanor, Franklin, and Lucy in New Orbits Franklin Reaches Out to Lucy, 1926-1928 Lucy and the President Sundown Solace Epilogue: Two Widows Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisWhat more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washington social circle, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's rival, as the title of Christine Totten's work points out. In Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love , Totten presents a carefully structured case for a deep and lasting but chaste love between Lucy and FDR, against the prevailing view that they were clandestine lovers. Totten's research into the personal memories of the Rutherfurd family and the public holdings of the FDR Library establishes a new rich understanding of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd--her early life, her education, and her role in the social and political scene in Washington. This work gives Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd her due, as a woman in her own right as well as FDR's valued soul mate and friend., What more could there be to know about Franklin D. Roosevelt, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? There is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, Washington socialite, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's rival. 28 b&w illus., What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washington social circle, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's rival, as the title of Christine Totten's work points out. In Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love, Totten presents a carefully structured case for a deep and lasting but chaste love between Lucy and FDR, against the prevailing view that they were clandestine lovers. Totten's research into the personal memories of the Rutherfurd family and the public holdings of the FDR Library establishes a new rich understanding of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd--her early life, her education, and her role in the social and political scene in Washington. This work gives Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd her due, as a woman in her own right as well as FDR's valued soul mate and friend.

LC Classification NumberE807.T68 2016