Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph Lash, P.

Eleanor: The Years Alone (original 1972; edition 1972)

by Joseph Lash, P., Franklin Roosevelt, D. (Foreword)

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Joseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and National Book Award-winning writer of Eleanor and Franklin, turns to the seventeen years Eleanor Roosevelt lived after FDR's death in 1945. Already a major figure in her own right, Roosevelt gained new stature with her work at the United Nations and her contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her activism on behalf of civil rights, as well as her humanitarian work, which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World. Lash has created an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person.… (more)

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Member:	Murrayky
Title:	Eleanor: The Years Alone
Authors:	Joseph Lash, P.
Other authors:	Franklin Roosevelt, D. (Foreword)
Info:	W. W. Norton & Company (1972), Hardcover, 408 pages
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To Mrs. Roosevelt's grandchildren and our own

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She had not quite realized how much she had relied upon her husband intellectually, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote Walter Nash, New Zealand's minister of finance, adding, "I shall hope to continue to do what I can to be useful, although without my husband's advice and guidance I feel very inadequate."

Preface: A few days after Franklin's death, a newspaperwoman intercepted Eleanor Roosevelt at the doorway of her Washington Square apartment in New York City, the one which she had selected with an eye to Franklin's using it after the White House hyears, and asked her for a statement.

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Joseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and National Book Award-winning writer of Eleanor and Franklin, turns to the seventeen years Eleanor Roosevelt lived after FDR's death in 1945. Already a major figure in her own right, Roosevelt gained new stature with her work at the United Nations and her contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her activism on behalf of civil rights, as well as her humanitarian work, which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World. Lash has created an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person.

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