This intriguing book tells the story of how during the harshest year of the depression, Lorena Hickok, a top woman news reporter, was hired by FDR’s administration to travel to the hardest-hit areas of the country and report back on the depravation being experienced. Running through the narrative, is how the intense relationship between Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, and their almost daily letters, influenced the shaping of the New Deal.

—Grahame of Harbor Books, Old Saybrook

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