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A my blooms new novel uses the power of gossip to get inside the roosevelt white house through the character of lorena hickok, reallife aide and close companion to eleanor roosevelt. Amy blooms white houses tells the story of eleanor roosevelt and lorena hickoks love affair from hicks point of view. Told by the indomitable hick, white houses is the story of eleanor and hicks hidden. White houses author amy bloom on eleanor roosevelt and lorena hickoks secret love affair by mary kaye schilling on 031418 at 8. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Eleanor roosevelts love life, as fodder for fiction the. Eleanor roosevelt s love story retold in amy blooms white houses the book show map. Eleanor roosevelt and journalist lorena hickoks love.

The rumoured love story between eleanor roosevelt and lorena hickok is given a fictional treatment in amy blooms new book white houses. Eleanor roosevelts love story retold in amy blooms white houses. In white houses, bloom weaves back and forth between april 1945, shortly after franklin roosevelt s death, and the early 1930s, telling the textured story of a physical passion and. White houses explores eleanor roosevelts romantic life. Anna eleanor roosevelt was the longestserving first lady throughout her husband president franklin d.

Roosevelts presidential campaign and then developed a close relationship with eleanor. In white houses random house, celebrated writer amy bloom imagines the relationship between first lady eleanor roosevelt and lorena hickok, the journalist who covered franklin d. Original title isbn 9780525589921 published on 20182. Roosevelt came to the white house in 1933, she understood social conditions better than any of her predecessors, and she transformed the role of first lady.

White houses, by seeing the roosevelt era through the most unlikely of outsidersturnedinsider, brings a hidden chapter of east wing history to life. Hick was known as a lesbian and she was also known to say she was in love with eleanor. The boston globe a remarkably intimate and yet informative novel of the secret, scandalous love of eleanor roosevelt and her longtime friend and companion lorena hickok, who relates the. White houses tells the starcrossed love story of eleanor.

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She moves into the white house, where her status as first friend is an open secret, as are fdrs own lovers. Lorena hickok meets eleanor roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on franklin roosevelts first presidential campaign. The intriguing story of eleanor roosevelt traces the life of the former first lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the white house to her. Amy bloom a literary speakers agency blue flower arts. Lorena hickok meets eleanor roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on franklin roosevelts first presidential. A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, little white houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary singlefamily house with middleclass whites to. White houses author amy bloom on eleanor roosevelt and. I did not know a lot about eleanor roosevelt before i opened this book. To call this novel the same would be an understatement. The new novel by guilford writer amy bloom, white houses random house, gives an intimate view of eleanor roosevelt and her longtime companion, journalist lorena hick hickok.