FDR and Lucy

This is the first book to delve into this hidden side of FDR's life - his thirty-one year affair with his mistress Lucy Mercer. By exploring the thirty-one year relationship between FDR and Lucy, Willis illuminates another side of this famous president: a man in need of comfort and respite from the cares of the presidency and the critical eyes of his wife and mother. She also points out the many historical implications of the affaire, and suggests that Eleanor's discovery of it in 1918 marked the end of the Roosevelt's personal marriage, and the beginning of their political marriage and Eleanor's groundbreaking activism.