Born March 7, 1893 East Troy, Wisconsin Died May 1, 1968 Rhinebeck, New York News journalist, investigator Lorena...

Lorena Alice Hickok (March 7, 1893 – May 1, 1968) was an American journalist and confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lorena Hickok was born in East Troy, Wisconsin in Walworth County. She helped Harry Hopkins with some fact finding missions during the...

Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley (Eds.), One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. $21.95 papercover. The New Deal Era continues to fascinate anyone interested in how the US government responds...

Edited by Rodger Streitmatter. New York: The Free Press, 1998, 298 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In this bitter moment of backlash, lynching and homophobia, it is refreshing to see the cordial response to Rodger Streitmatter's selections from the correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and...