[Rarebooks] FS: LADIES OF COURAGE Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and her "friend" Lorena Hickok

[Charles Agvent]

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ROOSEVELT, Eleanor & HICKOK, Lorena. LADIES OF COURAGE. New York:
G.  P. Putnam's Sons (1954). First Edition. SIGNED by the former First
Lady  on  the  first  blank.  An   account  of  women's  struggle  for
recognition  in  American  public  life  with  a  chapter  on  Eleanor
Roosevelt  by  Hickok  as  well as a chapter on  "How  to  Break  into
Politics."  The thirty-year relationship between Roosevelt and Hickok,
who  actually lived in the White House during part of FDR's term,  has
been  the  source  of much speculation with many believing  that  they
were  more  than friends. This is an uncommon title and  rarely  found
signed  in  any condition. Former owner inscription dated 1954 on  the
front free endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper.    $1200.00
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