Watch for it March 12, 2024.
I’m pleased
to be participating in revealing the cover of Stephanie Dray’s new novel,
Becoming Madam Secretary, tracing the life of one of America’s unsung
heroes: Frances Perkins.
Here’s the
blurb:
New York Times bestselling
author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and richly dramatic novel
about American heroine Frances Perkins, who pulled the nation out of the Great
Depression.
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.
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