01941cam a2200265 4500 282943766 TxAuBib 20000524120000.0 000524s1992||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 87040632 9780670804863 hardback 27.50 067080486X hardback 27.50 TxAuBib Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume One, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook. New York : Viking, 1992. 587 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Ancestry and heritage -- Elliott and Anna -- Childhood of tears and loss -- Years of dreams and longing - Allensoow and Marie Souvestre -- Coming out and courting -- Franklin and me, and Sara makes three -- Eleanor Roosevelt, political wife -- The Roosevelts in Wilson's Washington -- 1919-20: race riots and red scare, grief and renewal -- The Campaign of 1920 and Louis Howe -- ER and the new women of the 1920s: Esther Lape and Elisabeth Read, first feminist friends -- Convalescence, marital unity, and separate spheres: polio, Val-Kill, and Warm Springs -- ER, political boss -- New Yorks' first lady, part-time -- Teaching and Todhunter -- ER at forty-five -- Earl Miller: a champion of her own -- Assignment ER: Lorena Hickok and the 1932 Campaign -- The first lady's first friend -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. A study of the complex and political figure of Eleanor Roosevelt begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage, and explains how she persuaded Franklin to make the reforms that would make him famous. 20000524. Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962. Presidents' spouses United States Biography. Biography.