Eleanor

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding age ncy as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's mos t widely admired and influential women. In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaim ed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosev elt's remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President The odore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secre cy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin . Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt tran sformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York's Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York's most important power couple in a generation. When Eleanor discovered Franklin's betrayal with her younger, prettier social secretary, Lucy Mercer, she offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. Here is an Eleanor both more vulnerable and more aggressive, more psychologically aware and sexually adaptable than we knew. She came to accept FDR's bond with his executive assistant, Missy LeHand; she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could; and she explored her sexual attraction to women, among them a star female reporter on FDR's fi.

Product Info

ISBN: 1439192014

ISBN-13: 9781439192016

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Year: 2020

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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