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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Audiobook
Nonfiction: History / Biography / First Ladies
Unabridged   18.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 10/21/2014

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Audio CD ISBN:9781622315437
Digital Download ISBN:9781622315444

Summary

Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.

The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War.

A champion of the downtrodden, Eleanor drew on her experience and used her role as First Lady to help those in need. Intimately involved in her husband’s political life, from the governorship of New York to the White House, Eleanor eventually became a powerful force of her own, heading women’s organizations and youth movements, and battling for consumer rights, civil rights, and improved housing. In the years after FDR’s death she became a U.N. Delegate, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a newspaper columnist, Democratic party activist, world-traveler, and diplomat devoted to the ideas of liberty and human rights.

This single volume biography brings her to life through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the postwar years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad.

Author Bio

ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT was born in New York City in, 1884. She married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1905, and was the mother of six children. She became First Lady of the United States in 1933, and would go on to serve as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights under President Harry S. Truman, and chairwoman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women under President John F. Kennedy.