Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Volume I, 1884-1933

Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 22 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/05/2016

Synopsis

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 landmark biography provides a compelling new evaluation of one of the most inspiring women in American political history. Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, it presents an unprecedented portrait of a brave, fierce, passionate political leader of our century.

About The Author

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on January 16, 2009

Like Cook's first volume about Eleanor Roosevelt, this is an excellent book, well researched and well written. I can't help thinking how easily ER could have been a different person. She had the money and position to indulge herself in gratifying her own personal desires. And she had the background......more

Goodreads review by Krenzel on June 09, 2008

In the first volume of her series on Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook, a historian and women’s studies professor, introduced us to a compelling historical figure who, after years of living in passive submission to her husband and mother-in-law, had finally broken free to create her own "indepe......more

Goodreads review by Women's National Book Association of New Orleans on March 06, 2017

The Women's National Book Association sent this book to the White House today (March 6) in honor of Women's History Month: [URL not allowed]-... From the Women's National Book Association's press release: Volume 2 chronicles Roosevelt's first six years as America's most controversia......more

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