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These pages are an effort to set the record straight, to present the story of two real human beings and the relationship between them: how in completely separate ways they came to greatness through tremendous physical and mental anguish. This is the way it was. I trust only that it may serve as a lens to clarify for history the intricate personalities of the man who became the thirty-second President of the United States and the woman who, after his death, earned her place as the First Lady of the Western world.[From the Introduction]