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Join us for Book Club on Friday, May 29th at 11am. This month's book is "Hick" by Sarah Miller. Call or visit to reserve your copy of this work of nonfiction. Then join us for a book discussion on the 29th.
Book summary:
Lorena Hickok came from nothing. She was on her own from the age of 14, cooking and scrubbing for one family after another as she struggled to finish school. But she discovered she had a talent with words.
That talent allowed Hick to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated newsrooms where she earned bylines on everything from football to opera to politics. By age 35 she’d become one of the Associated Press’s top reporters.
At the moment her career was taking off, Hick was assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt during FDR’s presidential campaign. By the close of 1932, Hick was head over heels in love with the wife of the president-elect. And her life would never be the same.
Sarah Miller read the 3500 letters that exist between Hickock and Roosevelt to reconstruct their friendship and love, and bring Hick's story to a new generation.