Eleanor: The Years Alone
by Joseph P. Lash
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Continues the biography of Mrs. Roosevelt which began in the author's Eleanor and Franklin.Tags
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This book records the extraordinary active life in the world led by Eleanor Roosevelt after Franklin's death in 1945, and is a "coda" to the author's previous comprehensive book, Eleanor and Franklin.
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Joseph P. Lash (1909-1987) was secretary and confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt and the author of numerous books. Eleanor and Franklin won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
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- Canonical title
- Eleanor: The Years Alone
- Original publication date
- 1972
- People/Characters
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Dedication
- To Mrs. Roosevelt's grandchildren and our own
- First words
- 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, alth... (show all)ough 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 ... (show all)after the White House hyears, and asked her for a statement. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.917 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- World Wars and Depression Era (1901-1953) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1937) New Deal, Social Security Act
- LCC
- E807.1 .R574 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administrations,
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 12
