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relates this indomitable spirit's efforts on behalf of world peace and social betterment following her husband's death
Synopsis
Eleanor Roosevelt lived 17 years after her husband Franklin's death in 1945. This is the story of those mature years, in which her humanitarian work earned her the title of First Lady of the World.
Synopsis
Joseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and National Book Award-winning writer of Eleanor and Franklin, turns to the seventeen years Eleanor Roosevelt lived after FDR's death in 1945. Already a major figure in her own right, Roosevelt gained new stature with her work at the United Nations and her contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her activism on behalf of civil rights, as well as her humanitarian work, which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World. Lash has created an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person.
About the Author
Joseph P. Lash (1909-1987) was secretary and confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt and the author of numerous acclaimed books.Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b.1882 -- d.1945), 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945).