Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938

Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 28 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/05/2016


Synopsis

The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).

The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.

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 One: 1884-1933  and Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume Three: 193801962, 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