Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1884-1933
- Setting: New York, Hyde Park, and Albany, New York; and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Women’s issues, Women, Women’s movement, Women’s rights
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Albany, NY, Hyde Park, NY
For men and women who reached adulthood during the years following World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt often seemed an indestructible and numinous figure. That she had had a public life before the death of her husband was vaguely known, but often the more naïve students of contemporary history were shocked to learn that only a decade or two earlier, Eleanor Roosevelt had been a figure of violent controversy, the subject of bitter jokes and vicious caricatures, mocked as radical and unfeminine and lampooned on posters and campaign buttons.
It has been the task of Blanche Wiesen Cook,...
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