Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1933 Part 2

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Part Two Of Two Parts

Eleanor Roosevelt is arguably the most important woman in American political history. She polarized people during her life, and as this biography proves, continues to do so to this day.

Cook rescues Roosevelt from her role as long-suffering matron. In her place stands a woman fully realized--evolving, self-directed. Her life celebrated social justice combined with enduring emotional relationships.

"A great story told with verve and charm." (The New York Times)

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Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941 in New York City), Distinguished Professor of history at John Jay College in the City University of New York, is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884–1933, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winning biography of Eleanor Roosevelt....Ms.Cook, who is openly gay, is also the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933–1938, and The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace and Political Warfare. On October 21, 2013, the historian Douglas Brinkley mentioned on the television program "First Ladies" on CSPAN, that Professor Cook was currently writing Volume 3 of her Eleanor Roosevelt series.

She received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2010.

(from Wikipedia)