Porter Square Books is pleased to welcome Kathryn Smith, author of The Gatekeeper, the first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration: Marguerite “Missy” LeHand. Missy was FDR’s de facto chief of staff, and has been misrepresented and overlooked throughout history until now.
The Gatekeeper is a thoughtful, revealing unsung-hero story about a woman ahead of her time, the true weight of her responsibility, and the tumultuous era in which she lived and a long overdue tribute to one of the most important female figures in American history.
Kathryn Smith is a journalist and writer with a life-long interest in FDR and his circle.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.