Eleanor Roosevelt: V.1 - Hardcover

Wiesen-Cook, Blanche

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747514372 ISBN 13: 9780747514374

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1993

Synopsis

Visionary, activist, political wife, woman of surprising independence, Eleanor Roosevelt was the most influential First Lady the United States has ever had and undoubtedly the most important woman in American political history. Born into the American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcholism and self-destruction, Eleanor Roosevelt learned, rather than inherited, her progressive views. Though steeped in the sensibilities of the Old South with its prejudices against Blacks and Jews, she became an antiracist activist. She also became an eloquent spokesperson for peace and for women, proclaiming "In the future there will be nothing closed to women because of sex". Blanche Wiesen Cook's access to new archives, her insights, and her respect for her subject contribute a new perspective not just on Eleanor Roosevelt but on the world of politics in which she thrived. This book celebrates a woman of wit, passion, unfailing energy and blithe courage, whose life can be seen as a guide for all women and men interested in a just society.

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Review:

"Fascinating" "(Washington Post Book World)"
"A first rate biography of America's most fascinating and infludential political woman." "(Jill Ker Conway)"
"Intelligent and absorbing" ("New York")

"Fascinating" (Washington Post Book World)
"A first rate biography of America's most fascinating and infludential political woman." (Jill Ker Conway)
"Intelligent and absorbing" (New York)

"A first rate biography of America's most fascinating and influential political woman." (Jill Ker Conway)

"A fresh interpretation of the relationship between Roosevelt's private and public selves..spirited and absorbing" (David Kennedy, New York Times Book Review)

"Intelligent and absorbing" (New York)

About the Author:

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two: 1933-1938 and Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Three, 1938-1962, Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution and The Declassified Eisenhower, and is a former vice-president for research at the American Historical Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0747514372
• ISBN 13: 9780747514374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 598