The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Oct 2014 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.

The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War.

A champion of the downtrodden, Eleanor drew on her experience and used her role as First Lady to help those in need. Intimately involved in her husband’s political life, from the governorship of New York to the White House, Eleanor would eventually become a powerful force of her own, heading women’s organizations and youth movements, and battling for consumer rights, civil rights, and improved housing. In the years after FDR’s death, this inspiring, controversial, and outspoken leader would become a U.N. Delegate, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a newspaper columnist, Democratic party activist, world-traveler, and diplomat devoted to the ideas of liberty and human rights.

This single volume biography brings her into focus through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the post-war years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad.

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos.

Ratings and reviews

Eleanor Roosevelt, truly writes well. She gives you a true feeling of what that time period was like for women of the era, plus some opportunities that only the white houseś´ first lady could receive. I would have loved to be on one of her many trips. Or knit as well as she did for the soldiers. It also let me know that republicans and Democrats then, are not what they are today. She and her husband were a mutual respect society, but romance, questionable.

Was about the life, work, beliefs, opinions, of Eleanor Roosevelt. It also was about Pres. Roosevelt, their, family, friends, and those that they knew, associated, and served with.

A wonderful and tireless women. now there is a role model.I love that women.!!!!!!!!!

About the author

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884. She married Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and was the mother of six children. She became First Lady on March 4, 1933, and went on to serve as Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and Representative to the Commission on Human Rights under Harry S. Truman, and chairwoman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women under John F. Kennedy. She died on November 7, 1962, at the age of seventy-eight.