Both are models of their respective forms. Reading) for bringing this giant figure to clear view in this wise and sympathetic biography. I wish I could personally thank the author (Ms. This is a well-written and beautifully performed book. Perhaps most of all what I was struck by was the tragedy of a woman whose passionate nature had to be publicly suppressed because of her husband's political goals. Eleanor was a mother, an educator, a writer, a political figure, a feminist, a humanitarian-above all she was a woman who rose far beyond what could have been expected of her. What Eleanor was was a woman who should be seen as one of the towering figures of the 20th century, who transcended the limits that society imposed on women. Eleanor was so much more than just a wife and mother. Blanche Wiesen Cook chronicled Eleanor Roosevelts life in two volumes of biography - including her activism for peace, social and economic justice and human. About the author (1992) Blanche Wiesen Cook is Professor of History and Womens Studies at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. What I learned was that everything I knew and thought about Eleanor was seen through a distorted lens. I thought I knew a lot about Eleanor because I had read so extensively about her husband and his leadership. One of the Great Americans I knew too little about Blanche Wiesen Cooks excellent biography (to which I would have given five stars had the omission of source for a rather.
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