Eleanor Roosevelt
Subtitle: Vol. 1, 1884-1933
By: Blanche Wiesen Cook.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670804863
Subjects: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
Description: A study of the complex and political figure of Eleanor Roosevelt begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage, and explains how she persuaded Franklin to make the reforms that would make him famous.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 1884-1933.; title: Introduction; title: Ancestry and heritage; title: Elliott and Anna; title: Childhood of tears and loss; title: Years of dreams and longing; title: Allenswood and Marie Souvestre; title: Coming out and courting; title: Franklin and me, and Sara makes three; title: Eleanor Roosevelt, political wife; title: The Roosevelts in Wilson's Washington; title: 1919-20 : race riots and red scare, grief and renewal; title: The campaign of 1920 and Louis Howe; title: ER and the new women of the 1920s : Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, first feminist friends; title: Convalescence, marital unity, and separate spheres : polio, Val-Kill, and Warm Springs; title: ER, political boss; title: New York's First Lady, part time; title: Teaching and Todhunter; title: ER at forty-five; title: Earl Miller : a champion of her own; title: Assignment ER : Lorena Hickok and the 1932 campaign; title: The First Lady's First Friend; title: v. 2. 1933-1938