The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a distant relative and Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he gradually ascended throughout the world of New York politics to reach the U. S. presidency in 1932. ...
The very best of Eleanor Roosevelt's historic newspaper column, for the first time in a single volume-a dazzling diary of her life and times. Recently 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, ...
"Never, perhaps, have any of us needed as much as we do today to use all the curiosity we have, needed to seek new knowledge, needed to realize that no knowledge is terminal. For almost eveything in the world is new; startlingly new"....Elli Roosevelt's
A major collection of the articles, speeches, letters and other writings of Eleanor Roosevelt which show her as an engaged thinker and prolific writer on key issues of her times. Arranged by time period and topic, these writings address issues such as the plight of migrant workers, the Holocaust, McCarthyism, and the struggle for civil rights. ...
Now in paperback: 300 letters between Eleanor Roosevelt and her "first friend" shed new light on their legendary, passionate bond.. In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor ...
These letters--254 in all--written after the death of Franklin, reveal the warm, though not close, relationship between President Truman and the first widow, Eleanor Roosevelt. They show how Eleanor provided support when Truman most needed it, and they reveal her role as advisor on important issues and her shrewd advice on how to win over world ...
2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression. Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration gave hope, support, and encouragement to millions of ...
My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt's legendary diary to the nation, is now in book form. Her historic syndicated columns, which appeared in newspapers across the country, are finally collected in this book, the first of two volumes--covering the years 1936 through 1945. Includes 16 pages of rarely seen photographs.
Here, in her words and the words of those who knew her, is a look at one of the great First Ladies of the 20th century who, with her husband, led the U.S. through a war, championed the rights of the less fortunate, and, as a widow, became her country's delegate to the newly formed United Nations.
In this second volume of My Day, the former first lady chronicles her own fascinating life as the country entered the post-war era. These columns, along with rare photographs and explanatory historical preludes, make up a picture of a remarkable first lady who endures as one of the nation's most influential women.
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, ...
An enlightening coda to her life, this volume presents Eleanor Roosevelt's opinions on everything that caught her unerring eye: the Cold War and the arms race; the civil rights movement; American politics--including the rise of John F. Kennedy--and even television. Told in her own words through her acclaimed column, "My Day".
Despite her shyness, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, followed her conscience to become one of the most admired, most criticized, and most influential First Ladies in United States history.
In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt served as chairwoman of the United Nations committee to create this declaration of moral conscience, now used by Amnest International as their founding document. This hardcover edition contains the international document in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.
" One of the most important women of the 20th Century, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was also one of its most prolific letter writers. Yet never before has a selection of her letters to public figures, world leaders, and individuals outside her family been made available to general readers and to historians unable to visit the archives at Hyde ...
Eleanor Roosevelt's niece celebrates the life and personality of her inimitable, groundbreaking aunt in this definitive collection of anecdotes and photographs. Previously unpublished, firsthand accounts, such as the time Roosevelt served hot dogs to the king and queen of England and how she learned to dive at the age of 60, reveal the exuberance ...
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