Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tavia Gilbert
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Now back in print, 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 eventually became 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 she became 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 to life through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the postwar years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad.
©2014 Original material © 2014 by Elleanor Roosevelt. Recorded by arrangement with HarperPerennial. (P)2014 (p) 2014 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books.Listeners also enjoyed...
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- Lesleyboyd
- 21-04-15
Disappointing
Having seen a superb one woman play on Eleanor R I really wanted to know more about her. The narrator was super but the autobiography was uninspiring and far too much about "my husband this, my husband that..". Also, there was little about her personal life it was mainly about her public life.
Rich and wealthy who think they are poor! Shame because she did great things.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-04-18
Not dazzling
Very informative about what this wonderful lady got up to. Very ahead of her time and had a lot of respect as a woman wherever she went. She wasn't a feminist as such but she got a lot done. The narrator's voice is very skip hop skip.. irritating. But most of all it lacks the heart and soul of the woman but is a great reference aid nonetheless to this woman and her times
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- Happy Customer
- 27-07-24
Such an incredible woman
What an exceptional woman of her time. To be born into a life of privilege, losing both parents at such a young age and having low self esteem largely thanks to her mother, who’d have believed that Eleanor would become one of the most loved and respected First Ladies.
She lived a fascinating life but it doesn’t seem to have turned her head.
To have given birth to six children, losing one in infancy, Eleanor & FDR appeared to be loving and sensible parents (even if not very ‘hands on’) who largely agreed on parenting.
Sad that FDR whilst being such a popular president - the only one to serve four terms in office - was such a philanderer. His mother having initially objecting to him marrying Eleanor, refused to allow them to divorce. It seems that Eleanor threw herself into working to maintain a united political front to enable her to use her own platform for the good of so much and so many.
Despite them living separate lives, FDR & ER were a formidable team, each achieving in their own right. If only today’s leaders and their wives were of that calibre, the US would surely be a better place.
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