Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933 - Brossura

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

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ISBN 10: 0140094601 ISBN 13: 9780140094602

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1993

Riassunto

The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. Three: 1938-1962, will be published in November 2016.

Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting intimate friendships with some of the great men and women of her times. This volume covers ER's family and birth, her childhood, education, and marriage, and ends with FDR's election to the Presidency--the years of ER's youth and coming of age.

Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, Cook's trilogy is an unprecedented portrait of a brave, fierce, passionate political leader of our century.

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Recensione:

"A first rate biography of America's most fascinating and influential political woman." (Jill Ker Conway)

"A fresh interpretation of the relationship between Roosevelt's private and public selves..spirited and absorbing" (David Kennedy, New York Times Book Review)

"Intelligent and absorbing" (New York)

L'autore:

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two: 1933-1938 and Eleanor Roosevelt:Volume Three, 1938-1962, Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution and The Declassified Eisenhower, and is a former vice-president for research at the American Historical Association.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140094601
• ISBN 13: 9780140094602
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 632