Book description
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.
Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother…
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Two American women are born in the same year in New York. Jennie becomes the mother of Winston Churchill and Sara, the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This is history at its best seen through the close relationship of mothers and sons. How destiny triumphs when 2 mothers are born in New York about the same time and their sons are destined to save the world in WWII.
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