You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life - Softcover

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062564722 ISBN 13: 9780062564726

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2016

Synopsis

From Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the world s most celebrated and public figures, comes this wise and intimate book on how to get the most out of life now available in a limited Olive Edition.

One of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this simple guide to living a fuller life. You Learn by Living is a powerful volume of enduring common sense ideas and heartfelt values. Offering her own philosophy on living, Eleanor takes readers on a path to compassion, confidence, maturity, civic stewardship, and more. Her keys to a fulfilling life?

Learning to Learn Fear the Great Enemy The Uses of Time The Difficult Art of Maturity Readjustment is Endless Learning to Be Useful the Right to Be an Individual How to Get the Best Out of People Facing Responsibility How Everyone Can Take Part in Politics Learning to Be a Public Servant

Informed by her personal experiences as a daughter, wife, parent, and diplomat, this book is a window into Eleanor Roosevelt herself and a trove of timeless wisdom that resonates in any era."

About this title

About the Author:

Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician and humanitarian, and, as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is recognized as the longest-serving first lady of the United States (1933-1945.) Born into the prominent Roosevelt family, Eleanor was raised in privilege by her grandmother following the death of her parents. Educated overseas, Roosevelt returned home to the United States and married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905. Influenced by her husband s success in politics, Roosevelt made regular public appearances and held her own press conferences while first lady.

Following Franklin s death in 1945, Roosevelt remained active in politics, and became one of the first delegates to the United Nations, as well as participating in the UN Commission on Human Rights and in John F. Kennedy s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. She also penned numerous memoirs and articles, including the autobiographies This Is My Story, This I Remember, and On My Own. Eleanor Roosevelt died in 1962 at the age of 78. Roosevelt, along with her husband Franklin Delano and uncle Theodore, is the subject of the 2014 Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.

From the Back Cover:

LIMITED EDITION

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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062564722
• ISBN 13: 9780062564726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208