Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After,

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

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.

Â â€œMonumental and inspirationalâ€¦Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war yearsâ€¦ [a] grand biography.â€ -- The New York Times Book Review

Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cookâ€™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, FDRâ€™s death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Rooseveltâ€™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 issuesâ€”economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescueâ€”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 yearsâ€”the war yearsâ€”made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDRâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-11-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-11-01
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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