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Download or read book Jewish First Wife, Divorced written by Ethel Gross and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish First Wife, Divorced collects the correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, and his Jewish first wife, Ethel Gross. These letters--flirtatious and fond, quietly argumentative and terse--reveal the significant influence of Progressivism on Harry Hopkins's political ideology and also the unique challenges for a professionally ambitious Jewish immigrant woman living in the early twentieth century.