eleanor roosevelt, bess truman, clare boothe luce, dorothy schiff, emily post, and every other prominent american women of the 1940s, with her patrimony, her own attainment and her latest accolade, quote cissy patterson, nobody calls are eleanor, is probably the most powerful woman in america. it added and perhaps the most hated. so cissy patterson was as i said, the daughter of chicago, and she was born in 1881, as a woman born in the late 19th century she had no expectations getting a job or going into the family business at the tribune. so she did what young heiresses typically do at the turn of the 20th century, and she married one of them fashionable so-called international men, in her case a very handsome but sort of devious count called joseph you just give, wasn't ethnic goal like growing up in vienna. whose ancestral states were in the ukraine. she had been warned by her family that he was one of her mother's friend put it, an infamous bad egg. it turned out to be much worse. she went to live with them in his castles in the ukraine, which were in need of repair. he married an american heiress in hopes that she would provide the funds to do that. and to allow him to buy a fox hunt. among othe