Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1
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The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt-an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.
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Introduction 1. Ancestry and Heritage 2. Elliott and Anna 3. Childhood of Tears and Loss 4. Years of Dreams and Longing 5. Allenswood and Marie Souvestre 6. Coming Out and Courting 7. Franklin and Me, and Sara Makes Three 8. Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Wife 9. The Roosevelts in Wilson's Washington 10. 191920: Race Riots and Red Scare, Grief and Renewal 11. The Campaign of 1920 and Louis Howe 12. ER and the New Women of the 1920s: Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, First Feminist Friends 13. Convalescence, Marital Unity, and Separate Spheres: Polio, Val-Kill, and Warm Springs 14. ER, Political Boss 15. New York's First Lady, Part-Time 16. Teaching and Todhunter 17. ER at Forty-five 18. Earl Miller: A Champion of Her Own 19. Assignment ER: Lorena Hickok and the 1932 Campaign 20. The First Lady's First Friend
Notes Selected Bibliography Index
