Eleanor and Franklin
by Joseph P. Lash
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Gives insight into Eleanor's childhood, how she overcame personal insecurity, how she coped as a politician's wife, and describes her relationship with her husband, Franklin.Tags
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Exhaustive look at Eleanor and Franklin. I wanted to enjoy this book and did for about 40% of it. Then I just couldn't take it any more. I read Lash's book Helen and Teacher about Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan so was familiar with the way he can jump around. He seems to know the story he is telling and at times leaves out what must have been pertinent information as I am found wondering if there isn't a critical tidbit I have missed or misunderstood. If he wrote more clearly it would certainly make an extensive book even longer. I had to stop reading.
1212 Eleanor and Franklin: The story of their relationship based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers, by Joseph P. Lash (read 8 Apr 1973) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1972) (National Book Award biography prize for 1973) I found the first part of this book--up to 1933--was absorbing: the kind of life lived by Eleanor and Franklin, etc. But the part on the Presidency years was poorly written, slap-dash, boring. They had a strange relationship, after 1918. The book ends with FDR's death. I do not believe I will read the sequel. The author is not objective.
Lash had acess to records and a long personal friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt. This is a remarkably complete biography of a woman who lived a very full life.
Read this about 35 years ago and recall that is was a great read.
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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 and Franklin
- Original title
- Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
- Original publication date
- 1971
- People/Characters
- Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Lucy Rutherford
- Related movies
- Eleanor and Franklin (1976 | IMDb); Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 | IMDb)
- Dedication
- To my wife Trude
- First words
- Preface: The first Roosevelt, Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt, arrived from Holland in the 1640s when new Amsterdam was a tiny settlement of 800 huddled in some eighty houses at the foot of Manhattan.
Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Oh, fear to call it loving!
- Blurbers
- Gill, Brendan; Mannes, Marya
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.917 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- WW1, WW2, Depression (1901-1953) Administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
- LCC
- E807.1 .R572 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administrations,
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.90)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 25