Eleanor
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Format
Book
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xx, 698 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-667) and index.
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In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed 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 first presidential campaign, and younger men. Eleanor needed emotional connection. She pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. As FDR struggled to recover from polio, Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, her husband’s proxy in presidential ambition, and then the people’s proxy in the White House. Later, she would be the architect of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age, urging Americans to cope with the anxiety of global annihilation by cultivating a “world mind.” She insisted that we cannot live for ourselves alone but must learn to live together or we will die together. -- from Amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Michaelis, D. (2020). Eleanor . Simon & Schuster.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Michaelis, David, 1957-. 2020. Eleanor. Simon & Schuster.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Michaelis, David, 1957-. Eleanor Simon & Schuster, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Michaelis, David. Eleanor Simon & Schuster, 2020.

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