{"product_id":"eleanor-roosevelt-volume-1-isbn-9780140094602","title":"Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1","description":"The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, \"a woman who changed the lives of millions\" (Washington Post).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleanor Roosevelt, Vol. Three: 1938-1962\u003c\/b\u003e, will be published in November 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleanor 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated by  feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers  everywhere, Cook's trilogy is an unprecedented portrait of a brave,  fierce, passionate  political leader of our century.\u003c\/p\u003ePreface and Acknowledgment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Ancestry and Heritage\u003cbr\u003e2. Elliott and Anna\u003cbr\u003e3. Childhood of Tears and Loss\u003cbr\u003e4. Years of Dreams and Longing\u003cbr\u003e5. Allenswood and Marie Souvestre\u003cbr\u003e6. Coming Out and Courting\u003cbr\u003e7. Franklin and Me, and Sara Makes Three\u003cbr\u003e8. Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Wife\u003cbr\u003e9. The Roosevelts in Wilson's Washington\u003cbr\u003e10. 191920: Race Riots and Red Scare, Grief and Renewal\u003cbr\u003e11. The Campaign of 1920 and Louis Howe\u003cbr\u003e12. ER and the New Women of the 1920s: Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, First Feminist Friends\u003cbr\u003e13. Convalescence, Marital Unity, and Separate Spheres: Polio, Val-Kill, and Warm Springs\u003cbr\u003e14. ER, Political Boss\u003cbr\u003e15. New York's First Lady, Part-Time\u003cbr\u003e16. Teaching and Todhunter\u003cbr\u003e17. ER at Forty-five\u003cbr\u003e18. Earl Miller: A Champion of Her Own\u003cbr\u003e19. Assignment ER: Lorena Hickok and the 1932 Campaign\u003cbr\u003e20. The First Lady's First Friend\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A first rate biography of America's most fascinating and influential political woman.\" \u003cb\u003e—Jill Ker Conway\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A fresh interpretation of the relationship between Roosevelt's private and public selves..spirited and absorbing\" \u003cb\u003e—David Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intelligent and absorbing\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlanche Wiesen Cook\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two: 1933-1938\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEleanor Roosevelt:Volume Three, 1938-1962\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrystal Eastman on Women and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Declassified Eisenhower\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a former vice-president for research at the American Historical Association.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304581091557,"sku":"NP9780140094602","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140094602.jpg?v=1767726135","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/eleanor-roosevelt-volume-1-isbn-9780140094602","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}