Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One, 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook | Resources

Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One, 1884-1933 Further Reading

Hoff-Wilson, Joan, and Marjorie Lightman, eds., The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt, Indiana University Press, 1984.

This collection of twelve essays examines the many different aspects of Roosevelt's personal and public life.

Lash, Joseph P., Eleanor and Franklin, W. W. Norton, 1971.

Lash was a close friend of Eleanor for over twenty years, and this biography focuses on her relationship with her husband. The author is sympathetic to Eleanor but remains objective.

....., Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends,Doubleday, 1982.

In this biography, Lash uses hundreds of Eleanor's letters to illumine many aspects of her life and relationships. Many of the conclusions that he draws are different from those reached by Cook.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, reprint ed., Da Capo Press, 2000.

Eleanor's own memoirs make interesting reading both for what they reveal (the details of her busy...
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