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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:53 — 53.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Sophisticated Lady,” the Duke Ellington jazz standard, performed by Ella Fitzgerald, speaking of disillusionment and loss. There’s plenty of that to around in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and her circle of family and friends. Our show today is “Eleanor in Love and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:49 — 2.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSusan 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, …