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Eleanor and Franklin

Joseph P. Lash

How did an anguished, insecure girl become Eleanor Roosevelt, and how did her marriage to Franklin shape them both?

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Author
Joseph P. Lash

Why read it

  • You will see how someone raised in loss and fear can grow into a public figure with her own voice
  • You will understand a marriage as a working partnership with real strain, not a tidy legend
  • You will learn how a private crisis can push a person into public life

Who it is for

  • Readers of American history who want the person behind the politics
  • Anyone in a demanding marriage or partnership
  • Late bloomers who doubt they can lead

Contents

  1. Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  2. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Preface
  5. I. Childhood and Youth
  6. 1.ELEANOR’S FATHER
  7. 2.HER MOTHER
  8. 3.THE WORLD INTO WHICH ELEANOR WAS BORN
  9. 4.THE CRACK-UP
  10. 5.HER MOTHER’S DEATH
  11. 6.“HE LIVED IN MY DREAMS”
  12. 7.THE OUTSIDER
  13. 8.THE SPARK IS STRUCK
  14. 9.YOUNG IN A YOUNG COUNTRY IN A YOUNG TIME
  15. 10.“FOR LIFE, FOR DEATH”
  16. 11.MOTHER AND SON
  17. 12.JOURNEY’S END
  18. 13.EPITHALAMION
  19. II. Wife and Mother
  20. 14.HONEYMOON
  21. 15.SETTLING DOWN
  22. 16.THE WIFE OF A PUBLIC OFFICIAL
  23. 17.THE ROOSEVELTS GO TO WASHINGTON
  24. 18.BRINGING UP HER CHILDREN
  25. 19.THE APPROACH OF WAR
  26. 20.PRIVATE INTO PUBLIC PERSON
  27. 21.TRIAL BY FIRE
  28. 22.RECONCILIATION AND A TRIP ABROAD
  29. 23.THE REBELLION BEGINS
  30. III. The Emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt
  31. 24.A CAMPAIGN AND FRIENDSHIP WITH LOUIS HOWE
  32. 25.BAPTISM IN POLITICS
  33. 26.THE TEMPERING—POLIO
  34. 27.HER HUSBAND’S STAND-IN
  35. 28.THE 1924 CAMPAIGN
  36. 29.LIFE WITHOUT FATHER
  37. 30.A LIFE OF HER OWN
  38. 31.SMITH’S DEFEAT, ROOSEVELT’S VICTORY
  39. 32.RETURN TO ALBANY
  40. 33.ROOSEVELT BIDS FOR THE PRESIDENCY
  41. 34.“I NEVER WANTED TO BE A PRESIDENT’S WIFE”
  42. 35.MRS. ROOSEVELT CONQUERS WASHINGTON
  43. IV. The White House Years
  44. 36.THE POLITICS OF CONSCIENCE
  45. 37.MRS. ROOSEVELT’S “BABY”— ARTHURDALE
  46. 38.PUBLICIST FOR THE NEW DEAL—COLUMNIST AND LECTURER
  47. 39.WITHOUT LOUIS HOWE—THE 1936 CAMPAIGN
  48. 40.WISE AS A SERPENT, GUILELESS AS A DOVE
  49. 41.CHANGES AT HYDE PARK
  50. 42.LIFE WITH MOTHER AND FATHER
  51. 43.THE DIVIDED WHITE HOUSE
  52. 44.A GATHERING STORM
  53. 45.THE YOUTH MOVEMENT
  54. 46.FROM PACIFIST TO ANTI-FASCIST
  55. 47.A SPIRITUAL SHOCK
  56. 48.MRS. ROOSEVELT AND THE COMMUNISTS
  57. 49.FDR ADMINISTERS A SPANKING
  58. 50.THE THIRD TERM
  59. 51.A JOB TO DO
  60. 52.GI’S FRIEND, I: JOURNEY TO BRITAIN

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