Pioneering first lady Eleanor Roosevelt got the fully fleshed portrait she deserved in the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography, which told the compelling story of a shy, lonely rich girl ...

THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...

Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency after his predecessor was cut down by an assassin’s bullet on Sept. 21, 1901. Over the next eight years, he towered over the political landscape, built an ...

A 2013 Princeton analyst’s online study charted the most and least respected professions in America. For contempt, politician ranked a bit better than prostitute. It’s unlikely that public opinion has ...

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Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly... Volume 3 Of Eleanor Roosevelt Biography Chronicles ...

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