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Widowed at twenty-two, Laura had one daughter, Peggy, to whom she devoted her life. When Peggy was sixteen, she confided to her mother that she was pregnant and that the lover who had promised to marry her had deserted her. “Well-meaning friends” advised an abortion and told Smith, “There is a way. Hide this thing from sight, send her on a journey.
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“Mary,” Jane said. “My grandmother.”
J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
In the spring of 1941 Lucy and Franklin began to see each another again. She was given the code name “Mrs. Johnson” by the Secret Service, and her name appears frequently on the White House register.
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Alice Glass had been Lyndon Johnson’s mistress for more than three years, in a passionate love affair of which Marsh, patronizing and paternalistic toward the young Congressman, was unaware. (In 1939, the publisher had helped Johnson financially by selling him land in Austin at a giveaway price. In 1940, he offered Johnson an oil deal that would ha
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How the most unpopular US president got reelected
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She moved to Maine shortly after her husband died, when Jane’s mother was ten.
J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
