Shannon McKenna Schmidt
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English
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Five weeks, twenty-five thousand miles, and an arduous secret journey of a brave First Lady.
August 1943. As World War II consumes much of the globe, Americans at home have no idea the extent of the horror their servicemen face. What they also don't know is that Eleanor Roosevelt has boarded a military transport plane, heading to
the Pacific theater on a mission to discover and report first hand accounts of the war. Anticipating familiar backlash...
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English
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Why did Norman Mailer stab his second wife at a party? Who was Edith Wharton's secret transatlantic lover? What motivated Anaïs Nin to become a bigamist? Writers Between the Covers rips the sheets off these and other real-life love stories of the literati; some with fairy tale endings and others that resulted in break-ups, breakdowns, and brawls. Among the writers laid bare are Agatha Christie, who sparked the largest-ever manhunt in England...