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2 de may. de 2023 · I enjoy reading anything about Eleanor Roosevelt and this recent book is a real treat. It covers one very small period of her life. For one month in 1943 (mid-August through mid-September), she traveled to the Pacific theater and came back 30 lbs lighter and depressed. Depressed over the loss and injury of many young men.
Chapter One ONE IN FEBRUARY 1884, JUST AS Anna Hall Roosevelt learned that she was pregnant, a blinding fog closed over Manhattan. Thicker and heavier than any in recent memory, it shut the city down for days.1 Late on February 12, the fifth straight night of precautionary bells tolling along rails and rivers,2 Anna’s husband, Elliott Roosevelt, was summoned through the filthy gray cloud to ...
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet or computer – no Kindle device required ... Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great ...
About Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1. 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.
15 de oct. de 2018 · Zed Books, Oct 15, 2018 - Biography & Autobiography - 584 pages. Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world’s greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people. In this sincere and frank self-portrait she recounts her childhood – marked by the death of her mother and separation from the ...
21 de oct. de 2014 · Eleanor Roosevelt. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlᵻnɔːr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in ...
22 de abr. de 2019 · Eleanor, Quiet No More. By Doreen Rapport, Illustrated by Gary Kelley. Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter’s looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life ...
