One of the New York Times\'s 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR\'s 10 Best Books of 2016 Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted.
One of the New York Times\'s 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR\'s 10 Best Books of 2016 Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both fir.
Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique.
This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people.
FDR\'s death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations.
These years--the war years--made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light.
She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism.
The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal.
Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues--economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue--when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war.
It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them.
The third and final Volume takes us through World War II, FDR\'s death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt\'s death in 1962. -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook\'s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. a] grand biography.
Monumental and inspirational...
Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years... -- The Wall Street Journal The final Volume in the definitive biography of America\'s greatest first lady.
One of the New York Times\'s 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR\'s 10 Best Books of 2016 Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted
