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Martha Eccles Dodd (October 8, 1908 – August 10, 1990) was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd , [ 5 ] US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's first Ambassador to Germany, Dodd lived in Berlin from 1933–1937 [ 6 ] and was a witness to the rise of the Third Reich .
Martha, separated from her husband and in the process of divorce, became caught up in the glamor and excitement of Berlin's social scene and had a series of liaisons, most of them sexual, including among them Gestapo head Rudolf Diels and Soviet attaché and secret agent Boris Vinogradov. She defended the regime to her skeptical friends.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.
Dodd learned a class-conscious view of Southern history from his family, which taught him that slaveholders were responsible for the Civil War.His semi-literate and impoverished father supported his family only through the generosity of wealthier relatives, whom Dodd came to view as "hard men, those traders and aristocratic masters of their dependents".
Stewart, 83, who recently has been making the press rounds while panning her Netflix biopic Martha, was painted by said documentary as the original influencer in a pre-social media era.
Dodd was born in Ashland, Virginia, to Randolph-Macon College history professor William E. Dodd and Martha Ida "Mat" Johns Dodd. Three years later, his father joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, while retaining his farm in Loudoun County, Virginia. [3]
Martha and Andy renovated Turkey Hill — their “dream home”— which spawned Martha's career. The house is long sold, and "I haven't talked to him for over 20 years, sadly,” she says.
Dodd and Leventhal met this past summer during a party in the Hamptons after being introduced by mutual friend, "Real Housewives of New York City" star Ramona Singer. Since, they've embarked on a ...