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"When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 acampaign, the two women become deeply involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship documented by 3300 letters. Set during the chaoti years of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Second world War,...
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Library of America volume 275
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English
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Chronicles the life of the first lady through her correspondence with her husband and other notable figures, covering her courtship and marriage, the American Revolution, her travels in Europe, and her time in the White House.
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Reflecting more than fifty years in the lives of John and Abigail Adams, a collection of remarkable letters provide an intimate portrait of an important early American family and an incisive, personal look at life in America before, during, and after the Revolution.
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[1987]
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English
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The correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. Cappon provides the complete correspondence between these two men and also includes the correspondence between Abigail Adams and Jefferson. Introduction, headnotes, and footnotes inform the reader without interrupting the speakers. This unabridged edition reissues the original material...
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2024.
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Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage,...
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