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7:00 pm

The Story behind FDR’s “Gatekeeper”

September 9, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140 United States

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 […]

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