Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life

This biography offers a clear, concise and moving portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her wisdom, kindness, trials and tribulations serve as wonderful examples of the power of human dignity, and of the ability of extraordinary people to captivateAmerica. The titles in theLibrary of American Biography Seriesmake ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

Editor's Preface	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943	p. 1
A Victorian Family	p. 15
The Legacy	p. 39
Growing Up	p. 59
Illustrations	p. 76
Eleanor and Franklin	p. 77
A Politician's Wife	p. 105
Grief	p. 125
Public Service	p. 143
First Lady	p. 177
The Democratic Crusade	p. 211
On Her Own	p. 237
A Note on the Sources	p. 267
Index	p. 277
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