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Coming Up On Interchange: Eleanor in Love and Politics

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Susan Quinn joins us to discuss her “biography of love,” Eleanor & Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt has recently been christened the “First Lady of Gay” and in Quinn’s new book we’re introduced to the woman who was likely Roosevelt’s first, and deepest, love, the journalist and writer Lorena Hickok. But, we’ll also hear about her love for Joe Lash and David Gurewitsch, the latter of whom Roosevelt wrote or telephoned everyday for the last ten years of her life. We’ll also talk to historian Jane Marcellus about Eleanor Roosevelt’s first book, the 1933 It’s Up to the Women; a work that Marcellus claims is a counter-statement to the propaganda project instigated by Edward Bernays for the presidential campaign of Franklin Roosevelt rolled out in the February 1932 Ladies’ Home Journal. What was “up to the women” according to the father of propaganda and public relations? Saving Democracy via Patriotic shopping, of course.

Eleanor in Love and Politics, on the next Interchange, Tuesdays at 5:30 pm on WFHB.

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Susan Quinn
has written for The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, and the Boston Globe Magazine, among others. Her biography of Karen Horney was awarded the Boston Globe’s Lawrence Winship award, and she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller residency at Bellagio in Italy for work on the life of Marie Curie.

Jane Marcellus is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her scholarly work examines media representation of employed women in the early and mid-20th century. She is the author of Business Girls and Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women (Hampton Press, 2011) and co-author of Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness (Peter Lang, 2014), which was named to Teen Vogue magazine’s “most epic feminist reading list ever” in 2015.

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