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Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage was once famously difficult, and it’s widely recognized that FDR enjoyed the company of women. But this remarkable book reveals a secret that has been carefully guarded for more than half a century: Roosevelt’s closest companion right through the last years of his life was once his sixth cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley. FDR was friendly with Daisy within the 1920s and invited her to his first inauguration in 1933. The friendship deepened; then, on a September afternoon in 1935, their feelings for every other intensified dramatically. From that day until FDR’s death in 1945, Daisy and the president were intimate companions. But the name of the game of this passionate relationship remained hidden until after Daisy’s death in 1991, when her circle of relatives found a battered suitcase under her bed. Stuffed inside were years of diaries and letters, including thirty-eight letters in FDR’s own hand that nobody had ever seen. Now Geoffrey Ward, the eminent historian and biographer, has woven th

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