description: Volume I of the Camp David Diaries’ an eleven-volume series, is a tantalizing approach to historical fiction combining women, politics, intimacies and the keeping of secret diaries at Camp David. Volume I – Eleanor Roosevelt (1942-1945), offers a peek into Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, including World War II, infidelity, betrayal, unrequited love and life in the White House. Volume I contains comments by each succeeding First Lady (Bess, Mamie, Jackie, Lady Bird, Pat, Betty, Rosalynn, Nancy, Barbara and Hillary), who also have diaries of their own (Volumes II – XI). Over the years the women have created a First Ladies’ primer in which they share lessons learned, and give tips on how to handle their job, the press, the public, the White House staff, their children and, most of all, their husbands. The voyeuristic nature of diaries is appealing, but when they are about the last eleven First Ladies, they are even more intriguing. It is history with an attitude.
language: English
title: Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942-1945
titlecomplete: Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942-1945 (Camp David Diaries, Vol. 1)
publisher: Sterling Miller Pub Co