Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First Lady of the World, 1953-1962

Unretiring Eleanor Roosevelt (1894-1962) chose to be the ``conscience of the Democratic Party'' in the Republican-led 1950s. This third volume of her syndicated newspaper columnn, ``My Day,'' samples her varied interests and causes, her international travels and the punishing schedule to which she adhered even in the last decade of her life. In mellow tones she tells of warm relationships with her many grandchildren; her close friendship with physican David Gurewitsch, with whom she shared a New York townhouse; appreciations of the first ladies who succeeded her. Unaltered was her longtime inclination to express her views, often controversial, on domestic and foreign affairs. (July)