Research Catalog

Title

Eleanor and Franklin : the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers / Joseph P. Lash ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ; introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

Author

Lash, Joseph P., 1909-1987

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1971.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr. (Franklin Delano), 1914-1988

Description

xviii, 765 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table (on lining papers); 24 cm

Summary

Gives insight into Eleanor's childhood, how she overcame personal insecurity, how she coped as a politician's wife, and describes her relationship with her husband, Franklin.

Subjects

• Presidents
• Presidents' spouses
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
• Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
• Biographies
• Biography
• United States
• Presidents > United States > Biography
• Présidents > États-Unis > Biographies
• Présidents > Conjoints > États-Unis > Biographies
• Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography
• Association copies (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Association copies (Provenance)
• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 728-750) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1972.
• Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1972.

Contents

Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. -- Author's note -- Preface -- Childhood and youth -- Wife and mother -- The emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt -- the White House years -- Bibliographical note -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 0393074595
• 9780393074598

LCCN

72152667

OCLC

• 161979
• SCSB-12077382

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library