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Author
Publisher
ILR Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was One of Us tells for the first time the story of her deep and lasting ties to the American labor movement. Brigid O'Farrell follows Roosevelt-one of the most admired and, in her time, controversial women...
42) Circle of fire
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid account of a critical chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady Hundreds of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt, yet, as America's longest-serving first lady, she remains a compelling and elusive figure. Perhaps the most mysterious period of her life began with her decision...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Examines the relationship between cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "revealing the contentious bond between two political trailblazers who short-circuited the rules of gender and power, each in her own way"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
History pals volume 2
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thanks to the crystal radio / time machine that turned up on their doorstep, Nolan finds Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala in his closet. Just as he's explained things to Mrs. Roosevelt, Nolan's mother drives in with his sister, and mistakes Mrs. Roosevelt for the sitter she's hired to take care of the children while she's out of town. It's only for 24 hours, so what could go wrong?
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From a shy and fearful child, Eleanor Roosevelt grew up to be not only First Lady of the United States, but one of the most influential women in U.S. history. Hers is a remarkable story of doing the thing you think you cannot do in order to work for change and to better the lives of others. Come learn about Eleanor, who challenges everyone - no matter his or her talents or gifts - to live a useful and fulfilling life.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
Author
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt mysteries volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invited the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable one...
59) Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E. Persico explores FDR's romance with Lucy Rutherfurd (which was far deeper and lasted much longer than was previously acknowledged). Persico also shows how FDR's infidelity as a husband contributed to Eleanor's eventual transformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatest American woman of her century; how the shaping hand of FDR's strong-willed mother helped to imbue him...
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