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02722aam a22003855i 4500 001 860F4996E81111EE854F591D4EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240322010045 008 240212s2024 miu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2024932509 020 $a 9798885795838 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Dray, Stephanie $e author. 245 10 $a Becoming Madam Secretary / $c Stephanie Dray. 250 $a Large print. 263 $a 2403 264 1 $a Farmington Hills : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 721 pages (large print) $c 23 cm 520 $a "Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love. But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he's a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she's a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House. Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR's most trusted lieutenant--even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she's willing to do--and what she's willing to sacrifice--to save a nation." $c Provided by publisher. 650 $a Women Cabinet Officers $x United States 650 $a Women $x Political Activity 650 $a Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 650 $a Biographical fiction 650 $a Historical fiction 941 $a 8 952 $l RFPC397 $d 20240611011139.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20240604013935.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240604011856.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045520.0 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20240405024750.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012900.0 952 $l HHPC765 $d 20240327010059.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20240322010052.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=860F4996E81111EE854F591D4EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search