Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

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Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
Release Year
2016
ISBN
9780670023950
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670023957
ISBN-13
9780670023950
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219720387

Product Key Features

Book Title
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 : the War Years and After, 1939-1963
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Political
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
34.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-040632
Reviews
Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One "Impassioned and sensitive, tender and angry . . . spirited and absorbing." --The New York Times Book Review Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume Two "Irresisibly readable . . . definitive." --The Washington Post, "Superb...Always in Roosevelt's corner, Cook skillfully weaves her subject's active and emotional life among friends and family members into the depiction of her public role. The champion of human rights, the anti-Fascist, the foe of anti-Semites, the protector of the ill and infirm, the superb personal diplomat is everywhere in sight." -- Publishers Weekly , boxed review "Outstanding... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." - Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review "A highly readable and richly detailed narrative of an accomplished yet controversial first lady. ..Cook succeeds in demonstrating how Eleanor's political ideas regarding human rights, economic insecurity, and the plight of refugees echo today. .. monumental ." --Library Journal Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One "Impassioned and sensitive, tender and angry . . . spirited and absorbing." --The New York Times Book Review Praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume Two "Irresisibly readable . . . definitive." --The Washington Post
Synopsis
One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." -- The Wall Street Journal The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. "Monumental and inspirational...Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years... a] grand biography." -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR's death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt's death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues--economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue--when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. These years--the war years--made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDR's death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations. This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique., One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." -- The Wall Street Journal The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. "Monumental and inspirational...Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years... [a] grand biography." -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR's death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt's death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues--economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue--when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. These years--the war years--made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDR's death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations. This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique.
LC Classification Number
E807.1.R48C66 1992

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