Secrecy and War

Professor Reynolds focuses on how the onerous secrecy surrounding his troubled marriage influenced his presidency. His formidable yet fragile wife, Eleanor, had supported him through his long battle with disability. But their marriage was now coming under increasing strain, for Roosevelt was living with a dark secret, about an affair, exposed and ended 25 years earlier, but now resurrected in wartime by a president isolated in the loneliness of power.