Newbery honor book: 1994.

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gradually ascended in the world of New York politics to reach the presidency in 1932. Throughout...

This is a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, telling of her achievements as First Lady, co-director of the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense, and U.S. delegate to the United Nations.

A biography of the woman who was First Lady during her husband's term as 32d President and who was also a prominent lecturer and writer on sociological and political subjects.

From the bestselling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become,...