A fresh look

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

By Kel Munger

This article was published on 10.13.16

Many of the revelations in Susan Quinn’s dual biography of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok were covered in Doris Faber’s 1980 biography, The Life of Lorena Hickok. What is different about Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady (Penguin Press, $30) is that all the defensive, judgmental folderol has been stripped away, allowing Quinn to draw conclusions about how their 30-year relationship played into the evolution of one of the most feminist minds of the early 20th century.

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