Franklin and Eleanor

Franklin and Eleanor
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Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780522851793
ISBN-13 : 0522851797
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Franklin and Eleanor by : Hazel Rowley

In this groundbreaking new account of their marriage, Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention--private and public--that kept Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt together.

No Ordinary Time

No Ordinary Time
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 790
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ISBN-10 : 9781439126196
ISBN-13 : 1439126194
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis No Ordinary Time by : Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.

Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 0822211017
ISBN-13 : 9780822211013
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Sunrise at Campobello by : Dore Schary

THE STORY: Atkinson in the New York Times, describes The play covers thirty-four months when F.D.R.'s crisis was a private one--from the day in August, 1921, when he was stricken by infantile paralysis at his summer home at Campobello, in Canada, t

Beloved Island

Beloved Island
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Publisher : Paul S. Eriksson
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0839710364
ISBN-13 : 9780839710363
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Beloved Island by : Jonas Klein

This biography chronicles the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, focusing on the influence of their summer home on Campobello Island. This personal history examines the Roosevelts' heritage and traditions and explores their public trials, tragedies, and triumphs, as well as the frustrations and disappointments of their private lives. Campobello played a vital role in the formation of character for both Franklin and Eleanor, providing outlets for physical activity and emotional escape. At Campobello, Franklin was afflicted by polio, the most defining event in both their private lives and public careers. This story is peppered with anecdotes, personal letters, and reminiscences of the friends, family, and staff who played important roles in their lives.

FDR's Shadow

FDR's Shadow
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 258
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780230103412
ISBN-13 : 0230103413
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis FDR's Shadow by : Julie M. Fenster

A brilliant look at how the indomitable and enlightened Louis Howe became the mega-advisor of the Roosevelt Clan.

Too Close to the Sun

Too Close to the Sun
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages : 458
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781458759641
ISBN-13 : 1458759644
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Too Close to the Sun by : Curtis Roosevelt

Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather’s inauguration. The country’s “First Grandchildren,” a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as “Sistie and Buzzie.”In this rich memoir, Roosevelt brings us into “the goldfish bowl,” as his family called it—that glare of public scrutiny to which all presidential households must submit. He recounts his misadventures as a hapless kid in an unforgivably formal setting and describes his role as a tiny planet circling the dual suns of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.Blending self-abasement, humor, awe and affection,Too Close to the Sunis an intimate portrait of two of the most influential and inspirational figures in modern American history—and a thoughtful exploration of the emotional impact of growing up in their irresistible aura.

Eleanor

Eleanor
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 720
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781439192054
ISBN-13 : 1439192057
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Eleanor by : David Michaelis

The New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women. In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation. When Eleanor discovered Franklin’s betrayal with her younger, prettier, social secretary, Lucy Mercer, she offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. Here is an Eleanor both more vulnerable and more aggressive, more psychologically aware and sexually adaptable than we knew. She came to accept her FDR’s bond with his executive assistant, Missy LeHand; she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could; and she explored her sexual attraction to women, among them a star female reporter on FDR’s first presidential campaign, and younger men. Eleanor needed emotional connection. She pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. As FDR struggled to recover from polio, Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, her husband’s proxy in the White House. Later, she would be the architect of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age, urging Americans to cope with the anxiety of global annihilation by cultivating a “world mind.” She insisted that we cannot live for ourselves alone but must learn to live together or we will die together. This “absolutely spellbinding,” (The Washington Post) “complex and sensitive portrait” (The Guardian) is not just a comprehensive biography of a major American figure, but the story of an American ideal: how our freedom is always a choice. Eleanor rediscovers a model of what is noble and evergreen in the American character, a model we need today more than ever.

Upstairs at the Roosevelts'

Upstairs at the Roosevelts'
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781612349015
ISBN-13 : 1612349013
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Upstairs at the Roosevelts' by : Curtis Roosevelt

Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister, Eleanor, and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents’ new home—the White House—Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and lived in one of the most famous buildings in the world with one of its most famous residents. Curtis Roosevelt offers anecdotes and revelations about the lives of the president and First Lady and the many colorful personalities in this presidential family. From Eleanor’s shocking role in the remarriage of Curtis’s mother to visits from naughty cousins and trips to the “Home Farm,” Upstairs at the Roosevelts’ provides an intimate perspective on the dynamics of one of America’s most famous families and those who visited, were friends, and sometimes even enemies.

White Houses

White Houses
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 241
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780812995664
ISBN-13 : 081299566X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis White Houses by : Amy Bloom

The unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us.

Eleanor and Hick

Eleanor and Hick
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 425
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101607022
ISBN-13 : 1101607025
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Eleanor and Hick by : Susan Quinn

A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. By that time, she had put her deep disappointment in her marriage behind her and developed an independent life—now threatened by the public role she would be forced to play. A lifeline came to her in the form of a feisty campaign reporter for the Associated Press: Lorena Hickok. Over the next thirty years, until Eleanor’s death, the two women carried on an extraordinary relationship: They were, at different points, lovers, confidantes, professional advisors, and caring friends. They couldn't have been more different. Eleanor had been raised in one of the nation’s most powerful political families and was introduced to society as a debutante before marrying her distant cousin, Franklin. Hick, as she was known, had grown up poor in rural South Dakota and worked as a servant girl after she escaped an abusive home, eventually becoming one of the most respected reporters at the AP. Her admiration drew the buttoned-up Eleanor out of her shell, and the two quickly fell in love. For the next thirteen years, Hick had her own room at the White House, next door to the First Lady. These fiercely compassionate women inspired each other to right the wrongs of the turbulent era in which they lived. During the Depression, Hick reported from the nation’s poorest areas for the WPA, and Eleanor used these reports to lobby her husband for New Deal programs. Hick encouraged Eleanor to turn their frequent letters into her popular and long-lasting syndicated column "My Day," and to befriend the female journalists who became her champions. When Eleanor’s tenure as First Lady ended with FDR's death, Hick pushed her to continue to use her popularity for good—advice Eleanor took by leading the UN’s postwar Human Rights Commission. At every turn, the bond these women shared was grounded in their determination to better their troubled world. Deeply researched and told with great warmth, Eleanor and Hick is a vivid portrait of love and a revealing look at how an unlikely romance influenced some of the most consequential years in American history.