Eleanor and Hick is a powerfully moving and vital story that could not have been told in its day, and alters radically what we. During the Depression, Hick reported from the nation’s poorest areas for the WPA, and Eleanor used these reports to lobby her husband for New Deal programs. Now I shall have to work out my own salvation.” A devotee of progressive causes and a veteran political helpmate (Franklin had been assistant secretary of the Navy and then governor of New York), Eleanor didn’t shrink from public service but she was dismayed at the loss of privacy being a first lady would entail, and she worried that her position would keep her from the activism that gave meaning to her life. 'Eleanor Roosevelts love affair with ace AP reporter Lorena Hickok, carried on just outside public view during the most public years of their lives, fascinates and inspires in Susan Quinns irresistible telling. : Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady (9781594205408) by Quinn, Susan and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. “Being a Democrat, I believe this change is for the better,” she said, but she “never wanted to be a president’s wife. . . When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in November 1932, his wife, Eleanor, made an extraordinary admission to the Associated Press reporter on the Roosevelt beat. Posted on Octoby Aidan Campbell in FDR NewsĮleanor Roosevelt’s Close Relationship With the Journalist Lorena Hickok

Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn