Volume 39, Number 15 · September 24, 1992
Outing Mrs. Roosevelt
By Geoffrey C. Ward
Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1, 1884–1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Viking, 587 pp., $27.50
Sometime early in his marriage, Franklin Roosevelt set out to write a novel. Its hero was to be George Richards, a young Chicago millionaire who had made his money manufacturing soap. FDR never got beyond the second page, but he did keep at it long enough to include an admiring portrait of his hero's wife:
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