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- catalog abstract "Publisher description: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage was famously difficult, and it is widely known that FDR enjoyed the company of women. But this remarkable book reveals a secret that has been carefully guarded for more than half a century: Roosevelt's closest companion during the last years of his life was his sixth cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley. FDR became friendly with Daisy in the 1920s and invited her to his first inauguration in 1933. The friendship deepened; then, on a September afternoon in 1935, their feelings for each other intensified dramatically. From that day until FDR's death in 1945, Daisy and the president were intimate companions. But the secret of this passionate relationship remained hidden until after Daisy's death in 1991, when her family found a battered suitcase under her bed. Stuffed inside were years of diaries and letters, including thirty-eight letters in FDR's own hand that no one had ever seen.".
- catalog contributor b7746161.
- catalog contributor b7746162.
- catalog contributor b7746163.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "1933-1941: Our Hill: The Years Before the War -- 1942: The One Focus of Everyone's Eyes -- 1943: The Luckiest Person Alive -- 1944: The Whole World Needs Him -- 1945: There is So Little One Can Do.".
- catalog description "Publisher description: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage was famously difficult, and it is widely known that FDR enjoyed the company of women. But this remarkable book reveals a secret that has been carefully guarded for more than half a century: Roosevelt's closest companion during the last years of his life was his sixth cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley. FDR became friendly with Daisy in the 1920s and invited her to his first inauguration in 1933. The friendship deepened; then, on a September afternoon in 1935, their feelings for each other intensified dramatically. From that day until FDR's death in 1945, Daisy and the president were intimate companions. But the secret of this passionate relationship remained hidden until after Daisy's death in 1991, when her family found a battered suitcase under her bed. Stuffed inside were years of diaries and letters, including thirty-eight letters in FDR's own hand that no one had ever seen.".
- catalog extent "xx, 444 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Closest companion.".
- catalog identifier "0395660807".
- catalog isFormatOf "Closest companion.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog relation "Closest companion.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.917/092/2 B 20".
- catalog subject "E807 .S89 1995".
- catalog subject "Presidents United States Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Suckley, Margaret, 1891-1991 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Suckley, Margaret, 1891-1991 Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1933-1941: Our Hill: The Years Before the War -- 1942: The One Focus of Everyone's Eyes -- 1943: The Luckiest Person Alive -- 1944: The Whole World Needs Him -- 1945: There is So Little One Can Do.".
- catalog title "Closest companion : the unknown story of the intimate friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley / edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward.".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".