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In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook profiles the complete Eleanor Roosevelt: an adventurous, romantic woman, devoted wife and mother, and visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands counter to her husband's policies. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a volume for all readers of American history. 32 photos.
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"Washington, D.C., is buzzing: the King and Queen of England are visiting. In he confusion, Lucinda Robinson, an assistant to the first lady, can't be found. Two days later, she turns up strangled in a White House linen closet. Horrified, Eleanor Roosevelt is fast on the trail. Desperate letters from an embittered lover turn up, but Eleanor's investigation quickly uncovers far more than a love affair gone sour: a German spy ring working inside the...
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J. Williams T. Youngs' penetrating and engaging biography of Eleanor Roosevelt serves as both an invaluable introduction to and excellent summation of the life of one of the truly outstanding women of our century. Professor Youngs traces Eleanor Roosevelt's life from her childhood in the troubled household of a privileged family to her years as a wife of a rising politician and mother of five. She took an increasingly vigorous role in politics and...
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"ER loved people and, as Joseph Lash says, she rarely let go of any of her friends, even when the passion faded. (The exceptions: Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman, with whom she had a serious falling-out.) This book is a thorough study of ER's friendships, with chapters that place the overlapping and sometimes conflicting relationships in ER's life. Written after her letters to Lorena Hickok were unsealed, the chapter on Hickok is good factually, but...
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A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own. The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt traces the life of the former First Lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White House to her active role in the founding of the United Nations after World War II.
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