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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2

The Defining Years, 1933-1938

The Defining Years, 1933-1938

Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938

By Blanche Wiesen Cook

By Blanche Wiesen Cook

By Blanche Wiesen Cook

By Blanche Wiesen Cook

By Blanche Wiesen Cook
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By Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Jun 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780140178944

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    About Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2

    The central volume in the definitive biography of America’s most important First Lady. “Engrossing” (Boston Globe).

    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.

    About Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2

    The central volume in the definitive biography of America’s most important First Lady. “Engrossing” (Boston Globe).

    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.

    About Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2

    The central volume in the definitive biography of America’s most important First Lady. “Engrossing” (Boston Globe).

    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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    About Blanche Wiesen Cook

    Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is senior editor of the Garland Library of War and Peace, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933… More about Blanche Wiesen Cook

    About Blanche Wiesen Cook

    Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is senior editor of the Garland Library of War and Peace, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933… More about Blanche Wiesen Cook

    About Blanche Wiesen Cook

    Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is senior editor of the Garland Library of War and Peace, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933… More about Blanche Wiesen Cook

    Product Details

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | History

    Paperback | $34.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 01, 2000 | 736 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780140178944

    Category: History | Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 01, 2000 | 736 Pages | ISBN 9781101567456

    Category: History | Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $35.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jul 05, 2016 | 1736 Minutes | ISBN 9781524702809

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    Praise

    “Irresistibly readable…Cook’s portrait of a woman in the thick of things during the hardest of times will stand as definitive.” –Washington Post

    “Cook gets at the tender, sprightly creature behind the starchy, strident image.”–Maureen Dowd, New York Times Book Review.

    Table Of Contents

    Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 2 Preface and Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. Becoming First Lady
    2. Public and Private Domains
    3. ER’s Revenge: Henrietta Nesbit, Head Housekeeper
    4. Mobilizing the Women’s Network: Friendships, Press Conferences, Patronage
    5. ER’s New Deal for Women
    6. Family Discord and the London Economic Conference
    7. Private Times and Reports from Germany
    8. Creating a New Community
    9. The Quest for Racial Justice
    10. The Crusade to End Lynching
    11. Private Friendship, Public Time
    12. Negotiating the Political Rapids
    13. 1935: Promises and Compromises
    14. The Victories of Summer, 1935
    15: Mobilizing for New Action
    16: A Silence Beyond Repair
    17: Red Scare and Campaign Strategies, 1936
    18: The Roosevelt Hearth, After Howe
    19: The Election of 1936
    20: Postelection Missions
    21: Second Chance for the New Deal
    22: 1937: To Build a New Movement
    23: A First Lady’s Survival: Work and Run
    24: This Is My Story
    25: This Troubled World, 1938
    26: Race Radicals, Youth and Hope
    27: Storms on Every Front
    Notes
    Notes on Sources and Selected Bibliography
    Index

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