Summary of Susan Quinn's Eleanor and Hick

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 When Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for president in 1932, some doubted whether he had the strength to lead the country out of the worst economic depression in its history. But his physical courage buoyed his worried listeners, and he enjoyed himself on the campaign trail.
#2 Eleanor Roosevelt was not involved in the political discussions that took place around her husband, Franklin. She was a passionate supporter of his, but she did not share his excitement about the presidential run.
#3 The only female reporter on the Roosevelt Special was Lorena Hickok, and she was furious that John Boettiger, an inexperienced reporter, was given special treatment. She complained to Eleanor Roosevelt about it, and Eleanor invited her to come along too.
#4 Eleanor and Hick’s friendship grew as they traveled together on the train. Eleanor was always looking out for others who had suffered and struggled, and she began to suspect that there was a tender-hearted and sometimes shy underneath Hick.

Sujets

• History
• United States
• Histoire
• 20th Century

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822503793
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

When Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for president in 1932, some doubted whether he had the strength to lead the country out of the worst economic depression in its history. But his physical courage buoyed his worried listeners, and he enjoyed himself on the campaign trail.

#2

Eleanor Roosevelt was not involved in the political discussions that took place around her husband, Franklin. She was a passionate supporter of his, but she did not share his excitement about the presidential run.

#3

The only female reporter on the Roosevelt Special was Lorena Hickok, and she was furious that John Boettiger, an inexperienced reporter, was given special treatment. She complained to Eleanor Roosevelt about it, and Eleanor invited her to come along too.

#4

Eleanor and Hick’s friendship grew as they traveled together on the train. Eleanor was always looking out for others who had suffered and struggled, and she began to suspect that there was a tender-hearted and sometimes shy underneath Hick.

#5

During a stopover in Topeka, Kansas, Hick met Eleanor Roosevelt, and was surprised to find that she was as fascinating as her husband. She also realized that Eleanor was wary of reporters because of the scandal-loving press.

#6

Hick became interested in covering Eleanor Roosevelt, and she spent her afternoons sitting outside her office in New York, trying to guess what was going on behind closed doors. She went to every one of Eleanor’s public appearances.

#7

Eleanor Roosevelt was a complex woman, who had many contradictions and surprises in her life. She was married to a politician, but she didn’t talk politics. She was a wife, but she also had a special friendship with his bodyguard Earl Miller.

#8

Hick’s trip with Eleanor Roosevelt showed her how complicated the Roosevelts’ marriage was. She learned that Missy was not just a personal secretary to FDR, but also a sort of second wife.

#9

The AP bureau in Manhattan was a noisy place, but Lorna Hickok was always happier with her dog Prinz by her side. She would bring him with her when she had to write about Eleanor Roosevelt.

#10

The Gardner Bridge series on FDR was dull reading compared to Hick’s on Eleanor. Eleanor was not going to be a First Lady, but rather plain ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt. She was going to be independent, but she was also going to be humble.

#11

Eleanor Roosevelt was going to have to give up some of the work she loved most and spend more time in a ceremonial role, doing what she and Hick referred to as being Mrs. R.

#12

On November 8, 1932, Franklin Roosevelt won the presidency with 57. 4 percent of the vote, carrying forty-two of forty-eight states. Eleanor was determined to continue her life as usual right up to the election, despite the looming victory.

#13

Hick was at the Roosevelt household on election night, waiting for the results. As the night went on and victory seemed certain, the excitement grew. Eleanor was urged to give a press conference, and she reluctantly agreed.

#14

In December of 1932, eight thousand men were waiting every day for work at the New York docks, which was unavailable because there was almost no foreign trade. Over a thousand hunger marchers threatened to occupy Cumberland, Maryland, and were held back by troops and vigilantes.

#15

Eleanor and Hick were getting to know each other. They went out to eat, and Hick took Eleanor to her favorite restaurant. They shared a cab, and when Hick arrived at the AP, the night editor shouted, Where’s Mrs. Roosevelt.

#16

After the assassination attempt, FDR urged his wife to travel with bodyguards. But she refused, insisting that she was not that important. She announced that she would be taking the train that night to Ithaca, as planned, to keep a speaking engagement the next day at Cornell.

#17

Eleanor was a great wife in Washington, and she and Franklin were seen as an attractive couple with a promising future in national politics. But evidence began to accumulate that FDR was focusing more than casual attention on his wife’s young and beautiful social secretary, Lucy Mercer.

#18

Eleanor’s resentment towards Franklin never really went away, and she held on to it for the rest of his life. She was always suspicious that he would try to see Lucy again, despite their agreement and Lucy’s marriage to Winthrop Rutherfurd.

#19

Hick’s success as a journalist didn’t carry over into her personal life. She had other brief affairs after the breakup with Ellie. But there were times when, in her loneliness, she misjudged the situation, and ended up with a journalist named Katherine Beebe.

#20

In 1932, when she took the 3:18 a. m. train from Albany to New York City to greet her son Elliott’s new baby, Mrs. Roosevelt had to borrow pocket money from the Secret Service man. In January, when she traveled to Washington to visit Mrs. Hoover, she turned down a limousine in order to walk over from the Mayflower Hotel to the White House.

#21

The statue was a memorial to Henry Adams’s wife, Clover, who committed suicide in a particularly terrible way, by ingesting the chemicals she otherwise used in her work as a photographer. The sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, called the work The Mystery of the Hereafter and the Peace of God That Passeth Understanding, but it is more often referred to as Grief.

#22

Hick had been working as a reporter for the Associated Press for 17 years, and she had finally achieved standing that no other woman had matched. But her relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt grew, and she resigned from the AP in July 1933.

#23

Hick’s childhood was a confusing, kaleidoscopic series of strange neighborhoods, different schools, and new teachers to get acquainted with. But her happiest memories were of life on the farm, and especially of farm animals.

#24

Hick’s father was the most undisciplined person she ever knew. He was always losing his temper and whipping horses, and he would often get into fights with his employers. Reading became Lorena’s salvation, and she loved strong heroes like Jesse James.

#25

Hick’s mother died when she was 13, leaving her father to take care of her three daughters.