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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 331 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition beige boards, red cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Preface; Introduction by Frank Freidel; Epilogue and Index. Also includes two newspaper clipping regarding Eleanor Roosevelt. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "At her death in 1962, Adlai Stevenson said: "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world." It was a simple and eloquent way to describe the woman whose accomplishments were as legendary as her admirers were legion. In this, the thrid and final volme of this acclaimed series, Eleanor Roosevelt leads us through her final ten years of life, when - with Harry Truman out of the White House, and the Republicans in power - she could finally give full voice to her often controversial views. Rather than choose a leisurely retirement as a revered former First Lady, she chose instead the more challenging role as standard bearer for the wide range of causes that she held close to her heart. Through her daily column, My Day, we have the opportunity to hear Eleanor Roosevelt's distinctive and always honest opinions on everything that caught her unerring eye: *The cold war and the onset of the nuclear age; *The ongoing struggle for civil rights; *The question of religious freedom; *The changing face of American politics - including the defeat of Adlai Stevenson and the rise of John F. Kennedy; *The ascendancy of Israel and the growing impact it had on the Middle East; *World hunger - which she witnessed first hand on her extensive travels; *And even that peculiar new invention - television. These columns capture Eleanor's wisdom, humor and unflagging zest for living, as she looks at the state of the world in the last ten years of her life, 1953-1962. More importantly, together with the preludes that tie them all together, they provide an enlightening and moving coda to the life of a great woman." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Carey, Nancy (jacket design) (illustratore). …