Franklin and Missy

Torbjorn Sirevag

• 26 november 2017
• 9781976565519

Samenvatting:

Most historians have concluded that Roosevelt (FDR) was too sick to influence the nomination of Harry Truman as VP in 1944. By contrast, this very intimate portrait/self-portrait of FDR by a Norwegian historian-novelist shows Roosevelt zestfully in charge. Based on new resources, this book also records the love and distress of his old assistant/intimate companion Missy LeHand after a stroke had forced her to return to her native Boston three years earlier. Their memories of past and present somehow merge in the novel as FDR´s train secretly crosses the USA from Washington DC to California at the very moment when the Democrats are headed for the 1944 party convention at Chicago.