Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, David Emblidge, Editor, David Elmblidge, Editor Pharos Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88687-457-5
This second collection of syndicated columns, which kept Eleanor Roosevelt in the public eye after FDR's death and her departure from the White House, covers an eventful period of her life. During the terms of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, she...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, David Emblidge, Editor, David Elmblidge, Editor Pharos Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88687-503-9
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...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, Elliott Roosevelt, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-15596-4
Published posthumously, the latest Eleanor Roosevelt mystery penned by her son finds the first lady once again investigating a murder. Judge Horace Blackwell, friend and adviser to the president, is stabbed to death in his White House suite, and...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, Roger Streitmatter, Author, Rodger Streitmatter, Editor Free Press $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-84928-7
Having fought her way to the top of the news room, AP reporter Lorena Hickok refused to write women's page pieces on Eleanor Roosevelt when she was assigned to cover FDR's campaign for governor of New York in 1928. By the time FDR ran for president,
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, Rochelle Chadakoff, Editor Pharos Books $18.95 (3p) ISBN 978-0-88687-407-0
First Lady for 12 years and an enduring presence among the world's most admired women, Eleanor Roosevelt reached millions of Americans through her syndicated newspaper column. This collection, a representative sampling of a decade of ``My Day''...
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Steve Neal, Editor, Gloria Steinem, Foreword by, Eleanor Roosevelt, Author . Scribner/Drew $26 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0243-5
Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman enjoyed a relationship unique in American history. Virtually strangers before the death of FDR, afterward the two became close friends and began exchanging letters on everything from their health and the weather to
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Eleanor R. Wotkyns, Author, Eleanor Roosevelt, Author, Cynthia Lamb, Editor Scrapbook Press $28 (232p) ISBN 978-0-9743017-0-9
This nostalgic book combines antique b&w and sepia-toned photographs with remembrances about former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, offering a charming portrait of a woman and an era. The author, whose father was the First Lady's brother, enjoyed a...
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Edited by Mary Jo Binker. Atria, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-501179-79-2
Eleanor Roosevelt, among her many public roles, wrote an advice column called “If You Ask Me” for more than two decades, starting in 1941, first for the Ladies Home Journal and then for McCall’s. In this collection, Binker, consulting editor for the
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Eleanor Roosevelt, with Michelle Markel, illus. by Grace Lin. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-62672-879-0
A fresh reworking of Roosevelt’s 1932 book explains the roles of government workers and elected officials, election processes, and the civic responsibilities of U.S. citizens. The pyramid-structured narrative begins at the local level, describing...
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