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Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok
Rodger Streitmatter
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Description for Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok
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In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, Your mother wasn't always so very discreet in her letters to me ), the find was still electrifying enough to create controversy about the nature of the women's relationship. Historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated more than 300 of those letters,published here for the first time,and put them within the context of the lives of these two extraordinary women, allowing us to understand the role ... Read more
In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, Your mother wasn't always so very discreet in her letters to me ), the find was still electrifying enough to create controversy about the nature of the women's relationship. Historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated more than 300 of those letters,published here for the first time,and put them within the context of the lives of these two extraordinary women, allowing us to understand the role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780306809989
SKU
V9780306809989
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About Rodger Streitmatter
Rodger Streitmatter is a professor of communications at American University. A former reporter for the Roanoke (Virginia) Times & World News, he is the author of five previous books. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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