Erin ’s Reviews > Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt > Status Update

For many months Franklin disguised his growing attachment to Eleanor. Being related made the deception easier

Eleanor was a Roosevelt before she married Franklin. Her father was Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore.

Since the 1850s the Democrats had elected precisely 1 president, Grover Cleveland.

For protection Eleanor's grandmother had 3 heavy locks on Eleanor's door. A girlfriend asked Eleanor why "To keep my uncles out " she replied

Franklin rarely read books other than dime mysteries.

"I will not say that all Democrats are horse thieves, but it would seem all horse thieves are Democrats."

The Roosevelt's had nothing against distant cousins marrying.

Warren Delano became a China merchant, which in the mid-nineteeth century meant he dealt in opium.