Christopher C. Gorham Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Christopher C. Gorham is an American published author.

He is best known for his 2023 debut novel, The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America. The book was released through Citadel Press. It was also a nominee for a Goodreads Choice Award in 2023 for best history and best biography.

Christopher has degrees from Tufts University, Syracuse University College of Law, and the University of Michigan. He has had his writing published in places such as Literary Hub, Paper Brigade Daily, the Washington Post, online publications, and other places.

He practiced law for over a decade. He has transitioned for the past few years to teaching and has instructed students at Westford Academy on Modern American History.

Christopher is married. His wife’s name is Elizabeth and the pair reside in Watertown and Chatham, Massachusetts.

Christopher is writing more so that he can provide his readers with more stories to enjoy!

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America is the first book from Christopher C. Gorham. If you have loved books such as Three Ordinary Girls, A Woman of No Importance, and Eleanor: A Life, you may very much enjoy this nonfiction book.

This is the story of Anna Marie Rosenberg and is the biography of the Hungarian Jewish immigrant. She would go on to serve as one of the closest advisors of FDR during the second world war. LIFE called her the ‘most important official woman’ in the world.

Anna Marie is referred to as a woman whose story is yet to be told and a woman who is of ‘many firsts’. She has a life story that is American, inspiring, and extraordinary. She led a life that was similar to the front lines of history.

The influence that her existence had on America in the 20th century throughout the times has never been told before with such clarity and with such detail. She was the special envoy on behalf of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II, going where the President was not able to.

Anna Marie was also one of the first women of the Allies to go into a liberated concentration camp. She also stood in Hitler’s mountain retreat (titled ‘the Eagle’s Nest), just days after it was captured. She also helped to guide the G.I. Bill of Rights direction as well as that of the Manhattan Project, which of course ended up proving intensely important to history.

Anna Rosenberg came from modest beginnings as an immigrant. She attended school but had only an education at the high school level to work with. However, she still managed to be a huge source of power behind national policies that were fundamentally essential when it came to the United States not only triumphing in World War II but doing well after it was over.

Strangely, even though she was such a critical individual and part of the United States’ role in the second world war, the story of her life has not really been focused on and even forgotten. Rosenberg started out working in public relations in Manhattan in the twenties.

She then developed a relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt. It was she who then recommended Anna to her spouse, then busy running to win the position of governor of New York. Rosenberg quickly became his unofficial advisor and had huge influence as a result of working for FDR, which was all the more effective due to its subtlety.

Roosevelt thought highly of her position and results and even called her “my Mrs. Fix-It”. The career that she had built up for herself continued on, even after the president passed away. By the time that 1950 rolled around, there was a move to tap her to be the assistant secretary of defense. It would be the highest position that had been held in history by a woman in the United States military.

This would actually spur Senator Joe McCarthy attempting to start a smear campaign against Anna, which ultimately went nowhere. Undeterred, Anna continued to operate in the political world and was even the organizer of the birthday gala for John F. Kennedy in 1962 where Marilyn Monroe sang to him in an event and a moment that would go down in history.

Rosenberg would continue to try and fight for causes, everything from women’s equality to racial integration to national health care, until her life had concluded. The Confidante is all about what people contribute to history being made. Rosenberg’s status as a powerful individual was all the more impressive due to her simple upbringing.

Fantastically researched and endlessly interesting, Anna Rosenberg at last finds redemption in an incredible life in this extensive biography from Christopher C. Gorham. Read the book that Kirkus Reviews called a ‘well-deserved first biography’!