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Jewish First Wife, Divorced
. Ed(S): Giffen, Allison (Assistant Professor Of English, Western Washington University, Usa); Hopkins, June
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Hardback. This collection presents and comments on the 1913-1945 correspondence between Harry Hopkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's advisor and New Deal Administrator, and his first wife of 17 years, Ethel gross. Editor(s): Giffen, Allison (Assistant Professor of English, Western Washington University, USA); Hopkins, June. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Called by some 'The Assistant President,' Harry Hopkins was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator. In 1913 Hopkins married Ethel Gross, a Hungarian Jew who became an active participant in the Progressive Movement in New York City, serving as secretary for the Equal Franchise Society and the Women's Political Union. Hopkins and Gross were divorced in 1931 but maintained a passionate correspondence from 1913-1945, writing letters that are published here for the first time. These letters lead the reader through their clandestine, interfaith courtship; the joys and the compromises of their early marriage; the couple's anger and frustration as ... Read more
Called by some 'The Assistant President,' Harry Hopkins was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator. In 1913 Hopkins married Ethel Gross, a Hungarian Jew who became an active participant in the Progressive Movement in New York City, serving as secretary for the Equal Franchise Society and the Women's Political Union. Hopkins and Gross were divorced in 1931 but maintained a passionate correspondence from 1913-1945, writing letters that are published here for the first time. These letters lead the reader through their clandestine, interfaith courtship; the joys and the compromises of their early marriage; the couple's anger and frustration as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739105023
SKU
V9780739105023
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About . Ed(S): Giffen, Allison (Assistant Professor Of English, Western Washington University, Usa); Hopkins, June
Allison Giffen teaches American Literature at Western Washington University. June Hopkins is associate editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University at Mount Vernon College and the author of Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer (1999). June Hopkins is the granddaughter, and Allison Giffen the great-granddaughter, of Harry Hopkins and Ethel Gross.
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