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Title: Slavish Claptrap
Review: A typical "project" from someone who has written for the likes of Time magazine to scintillate a plebian readership with "interesting" tidbits. Her account of Sara Delano Roosevelt is laden with errors. She was not of "old Hudson River aristocracy". Her father Warren Delano was from Massachusetts, as was her mother Catherine Lyman. They built their estate at Algonac, near Newburgh NY, after Warren Delano made his fortune trafficking opium into China. Sara was an elitist snob who never worked a day in her life. AS Eleanor Roosevelt said of her: she was prejudiced against anyone who wasn't of the social elite her family aspired to. Indeed, her father lost much of his fortune during the Panic of 1857 and had to return to China one more time to make a second fortune in the 19th century drug trade.
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