Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 738 |
Release | 2000-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101567457 |
The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 686 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Eleanor Roosevelt: 1933-1938
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt: 1933-1938 PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | Viking Adult |
Total Pages | 744 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | 9781101567197 |
Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic second volume, Cook takes readers through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt' an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780140178944 |
The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2, 1933-1938
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2, 1933-1938 PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Eleanor Roosevelt
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Pub Limited |
Total Pages | 686 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780747549802 |
The first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's superb biography of Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted as one of the most significant biographies of the decade.