In ‘The First Ladies,’ a Famous Friendship Gets ‘A Second Chance at Life’

We’re joined by Marie Benedict, who, along with Victoria Christopher Murray, wrote The Girlfriend Book Club’s October 2023 book, ‘The First Ladies,’ for a deeper look at First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Theirs was a powerful friendship that went unreported in mainstream media. Benedict explains how she and Murray, whose first book together was ‘The Personal Librarian,’ were able to research and write a story that was hidden in its time, then ‘lost’ over the years, capturing the conversations and causes of the real women behind this historical retelling.

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