Empty Without You The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
by: Streitmatter, Rodger (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 307 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1978, more than 2,500 letters written over a 30 year friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. The find created a controversy over the nature of the women's relationship. Streitmatter transcribed and annotated more than 300 of these letters, published here for the first time, and placed them within the context of these two women's extraordinary lives. Roosevelt is surprisingly sarcastic and funny, tender and vulnerable, and even, at times, judgmental and petty. Clean copy.