Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 2

Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101567456

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2 by Blanche Wiesen Cook Pdf

The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.

Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1101567198

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Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook Pdf

Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic second volume, Cook takes readers through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt' an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.

Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1028493225

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Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook Pdf

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt,David Emblidge
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786731404

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My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt,David Emblidge Pdf

"I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She's perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt is a loud and profound voice for people who want to change the world." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook Named "Woman of the Century" in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column "My Day" for over a quarter of that century, from 1936 to 1962. This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume the most memorable of those columns, written with singular wit, elegance, compassion, and insight -- everything from her personal perspectives on the New Deal and World War II to the painstaking diplomacy required of her as chair of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights after the war to the joys of gardening at her beloved Hyde Park home. To quote Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "What a remarkable woman she was! These sprightly and touching selections from Eleanor Roosevelt's famous column evoke an extraordinary personality." "My Day reminds us how great a woman she was." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822038904835

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952 by Eleanor Roosevelt Pdf

Volume 1 chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt's development as diplomat, politician, and journalist in the years 1945-1948. It is filled with original writings and speeches that have been annotated and made easily accessible through a comprehensive index. This is part of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project as the first of a five-volume set covering the years 1945-1962.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781430130406

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A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt by David A. Adler Pdf

"...A worthwhile and significant addition to any elementary collection." - School Library Journal

Author : Gare Thompson,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101639955

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Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? by Gare Thompson,Who HQ Pdf

For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...until Eleanor Roosevelt. Born in 1884, Eleanor was not satisfied to just be a glorified hostess for her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor had a voice, and she used it to speak up against poverty and racism. She had experience and knowledge of many issues, and fought for laws to help the less fortunate. She had passion, energy, and a way of speaking that made people listen, and she used these gifts to campaign for her husband and get him elected president-four times! A fascinating historical figure in her own right, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of First Lady forever.

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062355928

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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt Pdf

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War. A champion of the downtrodden, Eleanor drew on her experience and used her role as First Lady to help those in need. Intimately involved in her husband’s political life, from the governorship of New York to the White House, Eleanor would eventually become a powerful force of her own, heading women’s organizations and youth movements, and battling for consumer rights, civil rights, and improved housing. In the years after FDR’s death, this inspiring, controversial, and outspoken leader would become a U.N. Delegate, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a newspaper columnist, Democratic party activist, world-traveler, and diplomat devoted to the ideas of liberty and human rights. This single volume biography brings her into focus through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the post-war years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos.

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0664244947

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You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt Pdf

She was born before women had the right to vote yet went on to become one of America'¿¿s most influential First Ladies. A Gallup poll named her one of the most admired people of the twentieth century and she remains well known as a role model for a life well lived. Roosevelt wrote You Learn by Living at the age of seventy-six, just two years before her death. The commonsense ideas'¿¿and heartfelt ideals'¿¿presented in this volume are as relevant today as they were five decades ago. Her keys to a fulfilling life? Some of her responses include: learning to learn, the art of maturity, and getting the best out of others.

Author : Michele W. Albion
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813047805

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The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt by Michele W. Albion Pdf

Born to one of the wealthiest families in New York City, Eleanor Roosevelt seemed destined for a sedate and comfortable life. Instead, she fell in love with her fifth cousin and was flung into the highest levels of American politics, culminating in Franklin's unprecedented four-term presidency. Before her, no first lady had ever held a press conference or written a syndicated column. Eleanor spoke at national conventions and often made appearances on her husband's behalf. Her own influence lasted years beyond his death. She advocated for human rights, worked with the United Nations, and supported what later became the civil rights movement. The fascinating quotes in this collection are the words of an articulate, honest, and thoughtful woman. Of war, she said, "I hope the day will come when all that inventing and mechanical genius will be used for other purposes." In her column for Ladies' Home Journal, she wrote, "Freedom from want means being sure that if you want to work, you can get a job and that job will pay you sufficient to give you and your family a decent standard of living." Organized by topic--government, money, art, education, class, relationships, emotions--these quotations reveal the personal thoughts Roosevelt shared in letters and conversations alongside the strong opinions she expressed in speeches and interviews, giving evidence to her character and her beliefs. Her words continue to resonate today.

Author : J. William T. Youngs
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Presidents' spouses
ISBN : 032132885X

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Eleanor Roosevelt by J. William T. Youngs Pdf

Examines Eleanor Roosevelt's life as a professional woman, a wife and mother, and, finally, a woman who illuminated her times and exemplified the complexities of womanhood in the twentieth century.

Author : Joseph P. Lash
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393247657

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Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash Pdf

The #1 New York Times Bestseller—Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award In his extraordinary biography of the major political couple of the twentieth century, Joseph P. Lash reconstructs from Eleanor Roosevelt's personal papers her early life and four-decade marriage to the four-time president who brought America back from the Great Depression and helped to win World War II. The result is an intimate look at the vibrant private and public worlds of two incomparable people.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476750576

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No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

Presents a social history of the United States in 1940, along with a moment-by-moment account of Roosevelt's leadership and the private lives of the president and First Lady, whose remarkable partnership transformed America. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:989920575

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook Pdf

Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735221185

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook Pdf

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." -- The Wall Street Journal The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. “Monumental and inspirational…Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years… [a] grand biography.” -- 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. 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. 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. 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. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. 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. These years—the war years—made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. 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. 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. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique.