Overview
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She was the most famous and admired woman in America. He was a strikingly handsome doctor, eighteen years her junior. Eleanor Roosevelt first met David Gurewitsch in 1944. He was making a house call to a patient when the door opened to reveal the wife of the president of the United States, who had come to help her sick friend. A year later, Gurewitsch was Mrs. Rooseveltās personal physician, on his way to becoming the great ladyās dearest companionāa relationship that would endure until Mrs. Rooseveltās death in 1962. Recounting the details of this remarkable union is an intimately involved chronicler: Gurewitschās wife, Edna.
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Kindred Souls is a rare love storyāthe tale of a friendship between two extraordinary people, based on trust, exchange of confidences, and profound interest in and respect for each otherās work. With perceptiveness, compassion, admiration, and deep affection, the author recalls the final decade and a half of the former First Ladyās exceptional life, from her first encounter with the man who would become Mrs. Gurewitschās husband through the blossoming of a unique bond and platonic love.
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Blended into her tender reminiscences are excerpts from the enduring correspondence between Dr. Gurewitsch and the First Lady, and a collection of personal photographs of the Gurewitsch and Roosevelt families. The result is a revealing portrait of one of the twentieth centuryās most beloved icons in the last years of her lifeāa woman whom the author warmly praises as āone of the few people in this world in which greatness and modesty could coexist.āĀ
This book title, Kindred Souls (The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch), ISBN: 9781504049320, by Edna P. Gurewitsch, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (March 20, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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