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Who is The Woman in the Mink Coat?

The Woman in the Mink Coat is a Rockette, a pragmatic wife, a coat check girl. She’s an unwed mother, a trained assassin, a young divorcee. She’s a natural entrepreneur navigating bigotry, a woman losing her faith, a war widow, twice. She’s a time traveler.

She lived in the early 20th Century and the first few decades of the 21st Century. She was around during both World Wars, was a hippie, a grandmother, a baseball fan. She lived in North America and in Europe.

One photo, 10 realities.

The Woman in the Mink Coat is written from stories by Jordan Aleck, James Boehme, Tyler Butterson-Dunn, Cambrie Caldwell, Ian Costello, Lacey Evans, Sheridan Kowta, Jordyn Siemens, Hank Stern and Andrea Zanaglio.

Tim Steele is a longtime journalist, managing editor and radio host whose previous novel, The Affairs of State, is about power politics, broadcasting, private lives and the public’s right to know.

“The Woman in the Mink Coat” is currently seeking publication in 2026.

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“The Affairs of State” is about power politics, broadcasting, private lives and the public’s right to know.

In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt decided to run for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States. World War II was heating up. France fell to the Nazis and Winston Churchill became England’s prime minister.

Shortly before FDR’s third inauguration in January 1941, the Betz Radio Network decided to make public information many insiders knew but no one reported: that President Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt were both having affairs with women. All hell broke loose, and President Roosevelt resigned a month before Pearl Harbor. That made Henry Wallace the new president. But he was a pacifist with no diplomatic skills.

“The Affairs of State” chronicles the furor, outrage, social forces and congressional investigations that led to FDR’s downfall. In the process, it forces us to deal with the fine line between private and public lives, a citizenry’s right to know, and the moral ambiguity involved.

“The Affairs of State” was published in 2004 by Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd. in London.

It’s now available through Amazon and Google Books.