Jewish First Wife, Divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins

Jewish First Wife, Divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins
ISBN-10
0739105027
ISBN-13
9780739105023
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
277
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Ethel Gross

Description

Jewish First Wife, Divorced collects the correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, and his Jewish first wife, Ethel Gross. These letters—flirtatious and fond, quietly argumentative and terse—reveal the significant influence of Progressivism on Harry Hopkins's political ideology and also the unique challenges for a professionally ambitious Jewish immigrant woman living in the early twentieth century.

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