Eleanor and Franklin

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Eleanor and Franklin
THE STORY OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP BASED ON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S PRIVÁTÉ PAPERS
Joseph P. Lash
Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
No other American marriage has had such far-reaching consequences for history as that of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. In outline, the story of this partnership of forty-five years is well known. But here, for the first time, it is told in the depth that its importance warrants and with an under-standing that brings it into new and brilliant focus.
For many years Joseph P. Lash was a close friend and political associate of Mrs. Roosevelt. From personal knowledge, the vast Hyde Park collection of papers, and formidable research has come an incom-parable work—filled not only with a wealth of new material but with a superb sense of both personal drama and historical event.
Throughout this story, the humán side and history interweave and interact. Eleanor Roosevelt's anguished childhood... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Eleanor and Franklin
THE STORY OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP BASED ON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S PRIVÁTÉ PAPERS
Joseph P. Lash
Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
No other American marriage has had such far-reaching consequences for history as that of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. In outline, the story of this partnership of forty-five years is well known. But here, for the first time, it is told in the depth that its importance warrants and with an under-standing that brings it into new and brilliant focus.
For many years Joseph P. Lash was a close friend and political associate of Mrs. Roosevelt. From personal knowledge, the vast Hyde Park collection of papers, and formidable research has come an incom-parable work—filled not only with a wealth of new material but with a superb sense of both personal drama and historical event.
Throughout this story, the humán side and history interweave and interact. Eleanor Roosevelt's anguished childhood in the Old New York of Edith Wharton is nar-rated with marvelous delicacy and insight. So is her courtship, highlighted by the letters of singular insight and purity which this shy young girl wrote to her princely suitor. Ali this is personal drama. But— like Eleanor Roosevelt's difficulties with her mother-in-law and her shattering dis-covery of her husband's love for Lucy Mercer—it was to resolve itself in the role that Mrs. Roosevelt came to play as a world figure.
This, then, is the real story of a humán relationship, uniquely fascinating and mov-ing in itself, and supremely important for its infliience on the destiny of the nation and the world. Its teliing is worthy of its participants and of the era that it illumi-nates and reveals. Vissza