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One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." -- T... Read More about Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

The story of a group of Jewish women who risked their bodies to fight racism Many people today know that the 1964 murder in Mississippi of two Jewish men--Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman--and their Black colleague, James Chaney, marked one of the most wrenching episodes of the civil rights mov... Read More about Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement

The story of a group of Jewish women who risked their bodies to fight racism Many people today know that the 1964 murder in Mississippi of two Jewish men--Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman--and their Black colleague, James Chaney, marked one of the most wrenching episodes of the civil rights mov... Read More about Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement

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 o... Read More about Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938

The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. Three: 1938-1962, will be published in November 2016.Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a f... Read More about Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933

On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, as a stunned nation gathered around the radio to hear the latest about Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing for her weekly Sunday evening national radio program. At 6:45 p.m., listeners to the NBC Blue network heard the First Lady's calm, measured voice... Read More about The First Lady of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts