About this title: 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. Throughout his three terms, Eleanor Roosevelt was not only intimately involved in FDRs personal and political life, but led womens organizations and youth movements and fought for consumer welfare, civil rights, and improved housing. During World ...
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Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. Da Capo Press, 2000. Fine Book. Overall, a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. Da Capo Press, 2000. Fine Book. Aside from light crease to front cover, overall a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780306804762ISBN:030680476X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text is clean, tight and unblemished. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 504 p. Contains: Illustrations. Quality Paperbacks Series. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780306804762ISBN:030680476X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 504 p. Contains: Illustrations. Quality Paperbacks Series. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780306804762ISBN:030680476X
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket Issued. This is a Near Fine paperback book in wonderful condition with a bright & clean cover and very tight pages. Reprint edition. The book is square and solid with only light shelf wear. The edges are very good. These pages are bright & clean, unmarked. No Names. Many interesting photos. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780306804762ISBN:030680476X
Description: Very Good. Trade Size Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean and tight, 454 pages, illustrated, light wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Bros, NY
Date Published: 1961
Description: G/G. First Edition; Moderate edge wear. Small tears & chipping to edges of DJ. Note to previous owner inside front cover. Pages clean, binding solid.; 454 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 1992-03-21
ISBN-13:9780306804762ISBN:030680476X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780306804762ISBN:030680476X
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Price clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first edition. DJ with heavy wear to the edges, minor tears & soiling, page edges soiled. Illustrated. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good in Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR WITH TEARS AND PRICE CLIPPED. YELLOW HARDCOVER COVER. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
"Wow, she sure has some guts! Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president Franklin Roosevelt, has some really strong beliefs. She has helped women get the right to vote, and fish them out of the well. Even though she's had a not very pleasant childhood, I think that made her all the detirmind to make her voice get out."
"I got into reading about past Presidents around the time of the inauguration and became very curious about Eleanor Roosevelt when reading about her husband. After reading this three-volume autobiography, I am no longer curious, but I have even more admiration.
If you're very curious about her childhood, then by all means read the first volume, but if not, read the wikipedia article for a summary and skip to the good stuff. The second volume covers her years in the White House and contains many observations about the world and the US at the time. She definitely transforms from a woman unsure of herself at the beginning of her family life to an insightful commentator on world events. Roosevelt spends more time in the third volume detailing her own worldview as a member of the UN delegation and Civil Rights committee. The topics on which she spends the most time are colored heavily by the mounting Communist threat at the time she wrote that volume (around 1961), but her convictions that all people deserve basic human rights and that we all have a responsibility to bring about a world in which possession of these rights are the bare minimum to be expected are still as prescient and important today as ever. I enjoyed getting to know Eleanor thoroughly."
"I had actually known very little about Eleanor Roosevelt before reading this book. It was wonderful to both learn about her and view the world through her eyes. She lived to be almost eighty and her life was never dull. One can only aspire to be a fraction as active as she. A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is fascinating because you really get sense of how she developed as a person. It was a slow process for her and she didn't become the independent person we think of until well into her middle age. I particularly enjoyed the later part of the book where I learned about her work with the UN and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She also shares more of her personal thoughts and ideas at the end. (These comments were sadly missing from earlier parts of the book that covered the Depression, WWII and FDR's presidency.) I also liked her accounts of visiting many newly independent nations in Africa and Asia. Many of Eleanor's thoughts about world affairs are still applicable today (despite being post-Cold-War). I was impressed with how humble yet fearless Eleanor Roosevelt was. She was a true inspiration."
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