JavaScript Forums Chat Register Login Women's History Books Understanding the context of how, when and where the women before us lived, worked and loved is as important as knowing the prominent and successful women of today. Cybergrrl's book picks are but a fraction of the important work available about women's lives, past and present. Drop us a line and we'll add your suggestion. Extremely generous to social and philanthropic organizations, Madam Walker was also active in political and cultural life and her daughter A'Leila was prominent in the Harlem Renaissance. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Virginia Kelley Clinton, Martha Truman, Ida Eisenhower, Lillian Carter and others are examined in this lively and fascinating look at women whose continuing influence continues to be felt indirectly by everyone living in America.
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She was sixteen when she died in Bergen-Belsen not long before Allied troops liberated the camp and this biography is based upon interviews with surviving family members and friends as well as newly available correspondence and other documents. Sources include hitherto unpublished comments by Anne upon her parents' marriage. A fascinating companion to Anne's famous diary. Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1938, Vol. 2 Blanche Wiesen Cook Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the twentieth century.