Christine M TottenChristine M. Totten is a retired Professor of Communications and former University Press Officer at the University of Heidelberg. In 1949, Totten was invited, among other distinguished German intellectuals and professors who had opposed the Nazi regie, by the U.S. State Department to re-educate the German people in American customs and ideologies. Eventually, she became a professor at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in Modern Languages and Cultures. She spent many years researching the impact of Sara Delano Roosevelt on her son FDR. Working on the biography of FDR's mother, Dr. Totten was led to look into the relationship between FDR and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the topic of this work. Read More Read Less