Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch - Softcover

Gurewitsch, Edna P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504049322 ISBN 13: 9781504049320

Publisher: Open Road Media, 2018

Synopsis

The poignant and unforgettable true account of the deep, loving friendship between a handsome physician and the former First Lady, as seen on PBS’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
 “I love you as I love and have never loved anyone else.” —Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter to Dr. David Gurewitsch, 1955
 
She was the most famous and admired woman in America. He was a strikingly handsome doctor, eighteen years her junior. Eleanor Roosevelt first met David Gurewitsch in 1944. He was making a house call to a patient when the door opened to reveal the wife of the president of the United States, who had come to help her sick friend. A year later, Gurewitsch was Mrs. Roosevelt’s personal physician, on his way to becoming the great lady’s dearest companion—a relationship that would endure until Mrs. Roosevelt’s death in 1962. Recounting the details of this remarkable union is an intimately involved chronicler: Gurewitsch’s wife, Edna.
 
Kindred Souls is a rare love story—the tale of a friendship between two extraordinary people, based on trust, exchange of confidences, and profound interest in and respect for each other’s work. With perceptiveness, compassion, admiration, and deep affection, the author recalls the final decade and a half of the former First Lady’s exceptional life, from her first encounter with the man who would become Mrs. Gurewitsch’s husband through the blossoming of a unique bond and platonic love.
 
Blended into her tender reminiscences are excerpts from the enduring correspondence between Dr. Gurewitsch and the First Lady, and a collection of personal photographs of the Gurewitsch and Roosevelt families. The result is a revealing portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most beloved icons in the last years of her life—a woman whom the author warmly praises as “one of the few people in this world in which greatness and modesty could coexist.” 

About this title

About the Author:

Edna P. Gurewitsch is an art historian and former art dealer. Born in New York, she earned her bachelor of science degree from New York University and taught at the High School of Music & Art. Gurewitsch also served as vice president of Manhattan’s E. & A. Silberman Galleries. During her marriage to Dr. David Gurewitsch, personal physician of Eleanor Roosevelt, she maintained a close friendship with the former First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt and David and Edna Gurewitsch bought and shared a New York City townhouse together, and the Gurewitsches accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt on many of her trips abroad.

Gurewitsch has one daughter, three grandchildren, and one stepdaughter. She lives in New York City. 

From AudioFile:

After the death of FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt developed an extraordinary friendship with her physician, David Gurewitsch. They shared their lives, friends, and dreams, and for the last years of her life, a house. Edna Gurewitsch, David's wife, tells the story of their friendship through his diaries, medical charts, and Mrs. Roosevelt's letters, all set within the context of events that affected both of them. Nothing is left out of their interactions with politicians, famous people, and the Roosevelt family. Bernadette Dunne reads this fascinating biography with an even pace and little characterization. Most extraordinary is the realization of how much more Mrs. Roosevelt accomplished after the death of FDR. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1504049322
• ISBN 13: 9781504049320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356