7/6/2023 0 Comments Eleanor and hick book review![]() When they weren’t together, Eleanor and Hick wrote tenderly of their longing for one another. ![]() Were Hick and Eleanor lovers? Quinn says we can never know for sure, though let’s just consider Exhibit A right here: Eleanor’s position and marriage obviously kept them from a complete relationship, but Quinn also argues that Eleanor’s devotion to others interfered too. They meet as a result of Hick covering the Roosevelts. ![]() In Quinn’s well-written and exhaustively researched book, Hick and Eleanor come across as a butch-femme Romeo and Juliet. Cook’s most recent bio and Quinn’s were released in the past few weeks and are selling well, if Amazon is any indication, so it seems we just can’t get enough. ‘Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady’ by Susan QuinnĮleanor Roosevelt’s relationship with reporter Lorena Hickok has become an obsession since their correspondence was made public: There have been at least two one-woman shows, Hick: A Love Story: The Romance of Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story, not to mention the books The Life of Lorena Hickok: E.R’s Friend by Doris Faber America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal by Michael Golay Empty With You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok by Rodger Streitmatter Blanche Wiesen Cook’s three volumes on Eleanor Roosevelt Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert and Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn. ![]()
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