Eleanor Roosevelt, Critical Lives - Softcover

Purcell, L. Edward; Purcell, Sarah J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028641620 ISBN 13: 9780028641621

Publisher: Imprint Unknown, 2001

Synopsis

Although she was never elected to office and seldom held an official position of any kind, Eleanor Roosevelt made a huge impact on a wide range of public issues. Today, nearly forty years after her death and almost seventy years after she first appeared on the American scene as the nation's First Lady, Roosevelt's life and activities are still the subject of intense interest. Critical Lives: Eleanor Roosevelt will cover her childhood, early adulthood and her involvement with the League of Women Voters, the United Nations and the Women's Trade Union League. Discussion of how she kept FDR's career alive after his bout with polio, her published works and her support for civil rights and her founding of the Americans for Democratic Action group.

About this title

About the Author:

L. Edward Purcell is the author, co-author or editor of 17 books, most of them on historical topics, as well as many articles and syndicated journalism. He has produced two biographical dictionaries and has edited a documentary work on the Great Depression. He has degrees in history from Simpson College and the University of Iowa and has served as editor-in-chief of the State Historical Society of Iowa.

Sarah J. Purcell teaches American history at Grinnell College in Iowa, where she received her B.A. and is an A.M. and Ph.D. graduate of Brown University, where one of her specialties was U.S. women's history. She is the author of a forthcoming book on historical memory and American national identity and has written several articles and published biographical entries in major reference works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Imprint Unknown
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0028641620
• ISBN 13: 9780028641621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288