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Ebook About New York TImes Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women.In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation. When Eleanor discovered Franklin’s betrayal with her younger, prettier social secretary, Lucy Mercer, she offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. Here is an Eleanor both more vulnerable and more aggressive, more psychologically aware and sexually adaptable than we knew. She came to accept FDR’s bond with his executive assistant, Missy LeHand; she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could; and she explored her sexual attraction to women, among them a star female reporter on FDR’s first presidential campaign, and younger men. Eleanor needed emotional connection. She pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. As FDR struggled to recover from polio, Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, her husband’s proxy in presidential ambition, and then the people’s proxy in the White House. Later, she would be the architect of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age, urging Americans to cope with the anxiety of global annihilation by cultivating a “world mind.” She insisted that we cannot live for ourselves alone but must learn to live together or we will die together. Drawing on new research, Michaelis’s riveting portrait is not just a comprehensive biography of a major American figure, but the story of an American ideal: how our freedom is always a choice. Eleanor rediscovers a model of what is noble and evergreen in the American character, a model we need today more than ever.Book Eleanor: A Life Review :
David Michaelis gives the world a deeply compelling--and timely--look at a unique figure in American political--and humanitarian--history. The story of Eleanor's amazing life, in the author's deft hands, reveals how difficult it was for even this child of the very uppermost strata in American society (Teddy Roosevelt was her uncle) to emerge as an independent woman, not a mere wife. Do not be daunted by this book's length, as its 548 pages fly by, given both the unbelievably rich life ER led and Michaelis's skill in making this a highly personal account of her unending life of both public accomplishment and personal emotional turmoil. The word "indefatigable" was never more accurately applied than to this human dynamo; during the first five years of FDR's presidency, she drove over 150,000 miles (!) to see just how America was suffering during the Great Depression--mostly at the wheel herself and with only a Smith & Wesson .22 as protection. In 1935, she began writing her syndicated column "My Day"--producing about 600 words a day, six days a week, for nearly all of the remaining years right up until her death.The author carefully avoids plowing the well-worn ground of FDR's political history, focusing on ER as a woman who overcame the the strictures of her time. She died in 1962, just before the term "feminist" came into vogue. But this biography shows how Eleanor was a true path breaker in a world relatively hostile to any signs of real independence in a woman, especially the wife of a beloved public figure.The story of both her emergence as her own public figure and her struggles to access an inner emotional life separate from her husband unfolds briskly in the author's hands. Michaelis presents her romantic and indeed physical attachments to several women with a rare combination of candor and discretion. Perhaps the most revealing story told here, unknown to even many Roosevelt scholars, was her late-in-life passionate love for a Jewish Holocaust refugee doctor fifteen years her junior. While he showed her great affection and admiration for the last 16 years of ER's life, the love itself was sadly unrequited. But the doctor remained her constant companion during the last splendid chapter of ER's life, when her foundational work with the UN's Human Rights Commission gave her worldwide recognition and indeed adulation as a true humanitarian.This book may be the life of someone who was born in the late 19th Century and died nearly 60 years ago. But the chaotic times we as Americans are experiencing today makes this a beautiful reminder of what our country once was--and can become again--utterly timely. If one doubts this, may I offer one quotation from Page 439 of "Eleanor": "The idea of superiority of one race over another must not continue within our own country, nor must it grow up in our dealings with the rest of the world." Thank you, Mr. Michaelis, for restoring Eleanor Roosevelt to her deserved high place in the affections of those generations born too late to experience her warmth directly. This book opened my eyes to an American history that I, a baby boomer, never learned in school. I cannot view our country as I did before. Eleanor Roosevelt was truly a great woman, who evolved as a result of her life's experiences. Perhaps all history should be seen from the perspective of women, rather than the vain, amoral, pompous, money-mad politicians who create so much of the chaos humanity suffers--by acting in their narrow minded self interest. How great would our country be if we strove to do our best, instead of elevating to public office our worst? Read Online Eleanor: A Life Download Eleanor: A Life Eleanor: A Life PDF Eleanor: A Life Mobi Free Reading Eleanor: A Life Download Free Pdf Eleanor: A Life PDF Online Eleanor: A Life Mobi Online Eleanor: A Life Reading Online Eleanor: A Life Read Online David Michaelis Download David Michaelis David Michaelis PDF David Michaelis Mobi Free Reading David Michaelis Download Free Pdf David Michaelis PDF Online David Michaelis Mobi Online David Michaelis Reading Online David MichaelisDownload Mobi Lincoln on Race and Slavery By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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