Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

This outstanding, inspiring new narrative of the first woman to serve in a president’s cabinet reveals the full, never-before-told story of her role in saving Jewish refugees during the Nazi regime.

Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving Labor Secretary, and an architect of the New Deal. Yet beyond these celebrated accomplishments, there is another dimension to her story. Without fanfare, and despite powerful opposition, Perkins helped sav...