Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok

"Documents the American landscape as seen by two intelligent, influential women who loved their country, and each other, with a passion that is rare." — New York Times Book Review

In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't always so very discreet in her letters to me"), the find was stil...