Eleanor Roosevelt

<p>To what extent did greatness inhere in the man, and to what degree was it a product of the situation?</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">It was the first time in history that British sovereigns had come to see what they lost in 1776. George and Franklin, Elizabeth and Eleanor, hit it off like old friends; even Texas congressmen melted under the royal charm. Brewing was a crucial World War II alliance</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned, that we always call her ‘Granny’ “her mother said. Cousin Franklin felt otherwise</span> </span></p>

<p>Eleanor Roosevelt thought the "young man from Massachusetts" was a fine senator, but <span class="body">too inexperienced to be President.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An Intimate Memoir</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The ground rules have changed drastically since 1789. Abigail Adams, stifled in her time, would have loved being First Lady today.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt’s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President’s castle as it was his formidable mother’s.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s honeymoon was a lavish grand tour through a sunny, hospitable Europe. It was also filled with signs of the mutual bafflement that would one day embitter their marriage.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">First Ladies have been under fire ever since Albert Gallatin called Abigail Adams “Mrs. President.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">FDR and Eleanor could do just about anything—beat a Depression, win a world war—except please each other.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">You’ve likely never heard of her.</span></p>

<p>I was a writer on the staff of the Hunter College newspaper when Eleanor Roosevelt, completely alone, would stop by looking for someone to talk to.</p>

<p><span class="deck">It has been with us since Plymouth Colony. But that’s not why it’s an American institution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">At a time when it can offer answers to urgent questions, we have forgotten America’s long history of “nation-building.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A novelist who has just spent several years studying Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucy Rutherfurd, and Missy LeHand tells a moving story of love: public and private, given and withheld.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why the UN was in trouble from the start</span></p>

<p>She functioned as Franklin Roosvelt's <em>de facto</em> chief-of-staff, yet Missy LeHand's role has been misrepresented and overlooked by historians.</p>

<p>First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s evolving relationship with African Americans challenged her beliefs about herself and the world she had been raised in.  </p>