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Eleanor
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Eleanor

Simon & Schuster, 2020 más...

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Eye Opening
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

Eleanor Roosevelt led a life of public service and private struggle, a testimony to the power of purpose and perseverance. The niece of US president Theodore Roosevelt, she was orphaned at an early age, then studied abroad before marrying her fifth cousin, future US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was unfaithful to her, and she sought love from others, but their personal and political partnership endured. As first lady, Eleanor condemned racial discrimination and other social injustices. She went on to guide the United Nations toward its adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Take-Aways

  • Eleanor Roosevelt was an orphan from an affluent family. Her relatives nicknamed her “Granny” because she was such a serious child.
  • After studying abroad, Eleanor married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
  • Eleanor bore six children and became more active in public service and politics after FDR’s unfaithfulness in 1918.

About the Author

David Michaelis is the best-selling author of Schulz and Peanuts and N.C. Wyeth, which won the Ambassador Book Award for biography.


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