FRANKLIN AND LUCY(ISBN=) 英文原版

In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E.
Persico explores FDR’s romance with Lucy Rutherfurd. Persico’s
provocative conclusions about their relationship are informed by a
revealing range of sources, including never-before-published
letters and documents from Lucy Rutherfurd’s estate that attest to
the intensity of the affair, which lasted much longer than was
previously acknowledged.
    FDR’s connection with Lucy also creates an
opportunity for Persico to take a more penetrating look at the
other women in FDR’s life. We come to see more clearly how FDR’s
infidelity contributed to Eleanor Roosevelt’s eventual
transformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatest
American woman of her century; how FDR’s strong-willed mother
helped to strengthen his resolve in overcoming personal and public
adversity; and how both paramours and platonic friends completed
the world that FDR inhabited. In focusing on Lucy Rutherfurd and
the other women who mattered to Roosevelt, Persico renders the most
intimate portrait yet of an enigmatic giant of American
history.

Joseph E. Persico is the author of Roosevelt’s Secret War:
FDR and World War II Espionage; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day,
Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918–World War I and Its Violent
Climax; Piercing the Reich; and Nuremberg: Infamy on
Trial, which was made into a television docudrama. He
also collaborated with Colin Powell on his autobiography, My
American Journey. He lives in Guilderland, New York.