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Closest Companion by Geoffrey C. Ward (1995, Hardcover)

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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