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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 | Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Outstanding A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cooks biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDRs death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelts death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issueseconomic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescuewhen they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. These yearsthe war yearsmade Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDRs death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations. This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique. From the Hardcover edition.
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Admired and beloved, scorned and reviled, influential, controversial, and timeless, Eleanor Roosevelt changed history.

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Lea
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Am I the only one that hates when a publisher changes the book covers/spines within a series?? I‘m so irritated that they changed it for book three. It doesn‘t look like a three book series now!

Bluebird No, you're not alone!! It's so upsetting when that happens. 😤 7y
Amie That drives me crazy, too! 7y
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This was a good closing of the trilogy. It is long and sometimes repetitive. It is depressing too - to be reminded that what is, was and we don't really change and we (America) are always kind of not good and just keep repeating the same bad ideas. This trilogy does shed a negative light on FDR and might cross the line of ER hero worship sometimes. I wish it went farther and more in depth in the post FDR years. #readwomen

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Found this at Barnes & Noble and I like it. But better start with part one.
Anyway. It's so relaxing to grab a book and enjoy reading with a Chai Tea Latte in a bookstore 😊📖☕📚❤

Liedie @Bookberry Enjoy darling 😘 8y
BooksPieAndCoffee Sounds like an absolutely lovely afternoon! 😍 8y
Bookberry @Liedie thanks, sweetie 😘 8y
Bookberry It truly was, @BooksPieAndCoffee 😊 8y
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