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Daisy chain

Gilbert, Justine2023
Books
Following the 1929 Stock Market crash, Daisy, a forty-year-old spinster, is the sole wage-earner for her family, paying for Wilderstein, their home on the Hudson River Valley. A chance invitation for a car drive with her cousin, the newly elected Franklin Roosevelt, leads to an affair. The First Lady, Eleanor, is a wife in name only, living separately from her husband. Laura Polly Delano, FDRs cousin, tells Daisy about his past, explaining his long running relationship with Missy LeHand, a poor Irish girl, now his Super Secretary, and his affair with the disgraced Lucy Mercer, formerly in Eleanors employ. As marriage is not an option, Daisy continues their clandestine affair, until he asks her to join him on a political trip. She refuses, knowing the consequences of being seen as a mistress, and when he leaves, she endures a miscarriage and illness alone.
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