Eleanor: The Years Alone (Leaders of Our Times Series) - Hardcover

Lash, Joseph P.

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9780831756109: Eleanor: The Years Alone (Leaders of Our Times Series)

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ISBN 10: 0831756101 ISBN 13: 9780831756109

Publisher: Smithmark Pub, 1996

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Award-winning writer Joseph P. Lash picks up where Eleanor and Franklin ended, tracing Mrs. Roosevelt s 17 years of life after FDR s death in 1945. Combining meticulous research with riveting anecdote, he examines the humanitarian work that earned Eleanor the title of First Lady of the World."

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Review:

A remarkable achievement . . . lucid . . . sensitive . . . as rich as [Lash s] understanding of the remarkable human being he celebrates. "

Moving. . . . Above all, [Lash] has conveyed with critical affection the essence of Eleanor Roosevelt. "

Splendid and complete. "

Inspiring. . . . Hers was a life which tells us that the human spirit is indomitable "

Reads swiftly and interestingly from first page to last. "

A remarkable achievement as rich as [Lash's] understanding of the remarkable human being he celebrates."

Moving Above all, [Lash] has conveyed with critical affection the essence of Eleanor Roosevelt."

Inspiring Hers was a life which tells us that the human spirit is indomitable"

Lash has succeeded in digging deeper, in portraying more richly, and in more profoundly stirring the reader's emotions with Eleanor alone.

A remarkable achievement...as rich as [Lash's] understanding of the remarkable human being he celebrates.

About the Author:

Joseph P. Lash (1909-1987) was secretary and confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt and the author of numerous acclaimed books.

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