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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, falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbles on their letters and divorce is discussed, but h...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780393325102
ISBN-10: 0393325105
Publication Date: 1/2004
Pages: 304
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 40 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: 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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