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04/05/10 1 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY HYDE PARK, NEW YORK Selected Books About Eleanor Roosevelt Asbell, Bernard Mother and D FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY HYDE PARK, NEW YORK Selected Books about Eleanor Roosevelt Asbell, Bernard Mother and Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1982. Angelo, Bonnie First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives. William Morrow, 2005. Arsenault, Raymond The Sound of Freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America. Bloomsbury Press, 2009. Ayres, Alex The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt, an A-Z Compendium of Quotations. Meridian, 1996. Beasley, Maurine Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self- fulfillment. University of Illinois Press, 1987. _______________ White House Press Conferences of Eleanor Roosevelt. Garland, 1983. Beasley, Maurine, et al. The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2001. Berger, Jason A New Deal for the World: Eleanor Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy. Columbia University Press, 1981. Black, Allida M. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume One, the Human Rights Years, 1945-1948. Thomson Gale, 2007. _______________ Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism. Columbia University Press, 1996. _______________ Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of 04/05/10 1 Eleanor Roosevelt. Columbia University Press, 1999. _______________ What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt. Carlson Publishing, 1995. Black, Ruby Eleanor Roosevelt, a Biography. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Burns, James MacGregor The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. Burns, Lisa M. First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives. Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. Butturff, Dorothy Dow Eleanor Roosevelt, an Eager Spirit: The Letters of Dorothy Dow, 1933-1945. W.W. Norton, 1984. Cain, Richard Eleanor Roosevelt’s Valkill. Arcadia, 2002. Caroli, Betty B. The Roosevelt Women: A Portrait in Five Generations. Basic Books, 1998. Chadakoff, Rochelle, ed. Eleanor Roosevelt’s My Day. Pharos Books, 1989-1991. (3 volumes) Cohen, Robert Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression. University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Cook, Blanche Wiesen Eleanor Roosevelt Viking, 1992-1999. v. 1. 1884-1933. v. 2. 1933-1938. Curtis, Sandra R. Alice and Eleanor: A Contrast in Style and Purpose. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994. 04/05/10 2 Davis, Kenneth S. Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts. Atheneum, 1974. Donn, Linda The Roosevelt Cousins: Growing Up Together, 1882-1924. Knopf, 2001. Douglas, Helen G. The Eleanor Roosevelt We Remember. Hill and Wang, 1963. Eaton, Jeanette The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt. Morrow, 1956. Edens, John Eleanor Roosevelt: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 1994. Flemion, Jess and Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Journey. Colleen M. O’Connor San Diego State University Press, 1987. Gerber, Robin Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage. Prentice Hall Press, 2003. Ghee, Joyce and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Hudson Valley Remembrance. Joan Spence Arcadia, 2005. Glendon, Mary Ann A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Random House, 2001. Goodwin, Doris Kearns No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Simon & Schuster, 1994. Gurewitsch, A. David Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Day, a Personal Album. Quandrangle, 1974. Gurewitsch, Edna Perkel Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch. Penguin, 2003. Hareven, Tamara K Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience. Quadrangle Books, 1968. 04/05/10 3 Harrity, Richard Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life in Pictures. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. Hershan, Stella K. The Candles She Lit: The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt. Praeger, 1993. ______________ A Woman of Quality. Crown Publishers, 1970. Hickok, Lorena Eleanor Roosevelt, Reluctant First Lady. Dodd, Mead, 1980. Hoff-Wilson, Joan and Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Marjorie Lightman Roosevelt. Indiana University Press, 1984. Kearney, James R. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of a Reformer. Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Keating, Anjelina Michelle Women Who Dare: Eleanor Roosevelt. Pomegranate Communications/Library of Congress, 2006. Klein, Jonas Beloved Island: Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello. Paul S. Erikson, 2000. Knapp, Sally Eleanor Roosevelt: A Biography. Crowell Co., 1949. Knepper, Cathy D. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt through Depression and War. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004. Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor and Franklin; the Story of Their Relationship. New American Library, 1973 _______________ Eleanor: The Years Alone. New American Library, 1973. _______________ Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend’s Memoir. Doubleday, 1964. _______________ “Life Was Meant to Be Lived”: A Centenary Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. 04/05/10 4 Norton, 1984. _______________ Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends. Doubleday, 1982. _______________ A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962. Doubleday, 1984. Lerman, Rhoda Eleanor: A Novel. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. Levy, William Turner The Extraordinary Mrs. R.: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt. John Wiley, 1999. MacLeish, Archibald The Eleanor Roosevelt Story. Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Miller, Kristie and A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt Robert H. McGininis and Isabella Greenway, 1904-1953. Arizona Historical Society, 2009. Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Eleanor Roosevelt: Women and Work, Considerations for the 80's. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill, 1981. Myers, R. David First Lady: A Bibliography of Selected Materials by and about Eleanor Roosevelt. Library of Congress, 1984. Neal, Steve Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Scribner, 2002. Nesbitt, Victoria Henrietta White House Diary. Doubleday, 1948. Pottker, Janice Sara and Eleanor: The Story of Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law, Eleanor Roosevelt. St. Martin’s Press, 2004. Purcell, Sarah J. and The Life and Work of Eleanor Roosevelt. L. Edward Purcell Alpha, 2002. 04/05/10 5 Roosevelt, Curtis Too Close to the Sun: Growing up in the Shadow of My Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor. Public Affairs, 2008. Roosevelt, David B. Grandmère; a Personal History of Eleanor Roosevelt. Warner Books, 2002. Roosevelt, Eleanor The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Harper, 1961. ______________ If You Ask Me. Appleton-Century, 1946. ______________ It Seems to Me. Norton, 1954. ______________ On My Own. Harper, 1949; Dell, 1959. ______________ This I Remember. Harper, 1949; Doubleday, 1961. ______________ This Is My Story. Harper, 1937; Doubleday, 1961. ______________ You Learn by Living. Harper, 1960; Doubleday, 1963. Roosevelt, Elliott Eleanor Roosevelt, with Love: A Centenary Remembrance. Dutton, 1984. ______________ Mother R.: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Untold Story. Putnam, 1977. ______________ A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House. Dell, 1976. _______________ An Untold Story; the Roosevelts of Hyde Park. Dell, 1974. Roosevelt, James My Parents: A Differing View. 04/05/10 6 Playboy Press, 1976. Sandifer, Irene R. Mrs. Roosevelt As We Knew Her. Sandifer, 1975. Sawyer, Kem Knapp Eleanor Roosevelt: A Photographic Story of Life. DK Publishing, 2006. Scharf, Lois Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism. Twayne, 1987. Schlup, Leonard C. and It Seems to Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt. Donald W. Whisenhunt University Press of Kentucky, 2001 Somerville, Mollie D. Eleanor Roosevelt As I Knew Her. EPM Publications, 1996. Steinberg, Alfred Mrs. R., the Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Putnam, 1958. Streitmatter, Roger, ed. Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok. Free Press, 1998. Swift, Will The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship that Changed History. John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Taylor, Keith M. American Adventure: The 1959 Journal of a Roosevelt Scholar. Garner Books, 2009. U.S. Congress. House. Memorial Addresses in the House of Representatives, Together with Tributes on the Life and Ideals of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. U.S. G.P.O., 1966. Ware, Susan Beyond Suffrage, Women in the New Deal. Harvard University Press, 1981. ____________ Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century. Norton, 1998. 04/05/10 7 Young, Dwight and Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House from the Johnson, Margaret Collections of the Library of Congress and National Archives National Geographic, 2008 Youngs, J. William T. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life. Little, Brown, 1985. 04/05/10 8 .
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