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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933

23 reviews
Blanche Wiesen Cook

Penguin, 1993

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933
I happened across Vol. 2 of this biography and procrastinated on actually reading it for several months--it is a LARGE volume and I was kind of put off at the seemingly enormous task of reading the tome. Once I started reading, I stayed with it. The book is well written and I found Eleanor to be a most intriguing figure. Something that kept me interested was the similarity between the issues in ...

Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation

3 reviews
Ruth Gruber

Union Square Press, 2007

Heartbreaking. Highly Recommended.
This very moving book covers the story of the "Exodus", the unarmed ship carrying more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors seeking refuge in "British occupied" Palestine during 1947. The ship, a former tourist vessel designed to carry only 400 passengers, is described as having been rammed and boarded by the British Royal Navy which was determined to prevent the Jewish Holocaust survivors from ...

Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938

20 reviews
Blanche Wiesen Cook

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000

Eleanor Stands Tall
Although not being an American, I'm aware that there are many in the States who are not too fond of ER and who are very critical of her. This second volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's series on America's former First Lady is as remarkable and absorbing as was the first. There is no doubt FDR was a man of character,courage and great personal charm and warmth, there is equally no doubt that his wife ...

Eleanor Roosevelt Biography: Volume I, 1884-1933 and Volume II, 1933-1938
blanche wiesen cook

penguin, 1999

Volume 1;1884-1933 Volume 2; The Defining Years 1933-1938

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2
Blanche Wiesen Cook

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 2000

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the most important woman in American political history, and in this definitive biography, ten years in the making, Blanche Wiesen-Cook re-creates her in all of her roles - as a visionary, an activist, a political wife, and a woman, far more independent than we knew. This volume encompasses the monumental era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms ...

The Declassified Eisenhower

1 review
Blanche Wiesen Cook

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1984

A scholar 'declassifies' the Eisenhower presidency .
I have kept the paperback version of this book nearby ever since it was published. It acts as an antidote to the warm and fuzzy image of 'Ike' as everyone's weekend golfing grandad, and restores a sense of the Cold War's origins and global strategies to Ike's presidency that pursued it covertly in the Western Hemisphere [Guatemala.] Wiesen Cook's scholarly treatment is anything but ...

Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement

1 review
Debra Schultz, Blanche Wiesen Cook

NYU Press, 2002

Exciting addition to civil rights scholarship
In a movement that unfortunately has been defined in the public perception by one charismatic black leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the commitment and plain hard work performed by women, black and white, has long been overlooked. Schultz's fine book adds a new chapter to the emerging fuller story of this freedom movement. Her skillful weaving of personal stories with the larger social ...