America 1933 / Golay, Michael

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

Follows the story of Lorena Hickok--personal friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and a successful woman news reporter--on her 1933 through 1934 journey across America, dispatched by President Roosevelt himself to find and report on the places the Great Depression had hit hardest.