Join us for Eola Road Branch's Breakfast B ook Club. We read a variety of fiction titles\, mainly historical fiction\ , and meet once a month for a lively discussion. Stop by the 2nd floor ref erence desk to pick up a copy. No registration required.
\nBook desc ription:
\nAn utterly absorbing novel about a famous political marri age and an epic infidelity.
\nOn the eve of World War I\, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt\, fiercely ambitious and s till untouched by polio\, falls in love with his wife's social secretary\, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbles on their letters and divorce is discussed\, but honor and ambition win out. Franklin promises he will never see Lucy again.
\nBut Franklin and Lucy do meet again\, and again they fall i n love. As he prepares to run for an unprecedented third term and lead Ame rica into war\, Franklin turns to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional ap proval Eleanor is unable to give.
\nEllen Feldman brings a novelist' s insight to bear on the connection of these three compelling characters. Franklin and Lucy did finally meet\, across the divide of his illness and political ascendancy\, her marriage and widowhood. They fell in love again . As he prepared to run for an unprecedented third term and lead America i nto war\, Franklin turned to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional approva l Eleanor was unable to give.
\nDrawing on recently discovered mater ials to re-create the voice of a woman who played a crucial but silent rol e in the Roosevelt presidency\, Lucy is a remarkably sensitive exploration of the private lives behind a public marriage (from Amazon).
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