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Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life

Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life

by Joseph E. Persico

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably the greatest figure of the twentieth century. While FDR’s official circle was predominantly male, it was his relationships with women–particularly with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd–that most vividly bring to light the human being beneath this towering statesman. It is no coincidence that Rutherfurd was with Roosevelt the day he died in Warm Springs, Georgia, along with two other... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

No Ordinary Time

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines--Eleanor and Franklin's marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor's life as First Lady, and FDR's White House and its impact on America... (more)

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Nonfiction)

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Nonfiction)

by Russell Freedman

The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt traces the life of the former First Lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White House to her active role in the founding of the United Nations after World War II. A Newberry Honor Book.

Etta: A Novel

by Gerald Kolpan

Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman’s life in a stunning debut novel. Kolpan imagines that Etta Place... (more)

Murder in the Map Room (An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery)

Murder in the Map Room (An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery)

by Elliott Roosevelt

A delightful combination of history and mystery, the Eleanor Roosevelt novels bring readers back in time as our most beloved First Lady scours the nation's capital for clues, while crossing paths with many of her famous contemporaries. Abroad there is war-at home there is murder... While World War II rages on, the White House is aflutter with preparations, awaiting the visit of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, beautiful... (more)

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding the needy young, and she was adamant in insisting that... (more)

Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers

Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers

by Joseph P. Lash

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series)

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series)

by Eleanor Roosevelt

To tie in with the paperback publication of volume II of Blanche Wiesen Cook's acclaimed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt "Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography is above all the portrait of a person. The history it gives is history as she has seen it-not in the round but directly, with her clear and candid eye. Since, however, she has seen so much and from so central a point of vision, her reflections on our world and on... (more)

Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom: An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery

Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom: An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery

by Elliott Roosevelt

A satisfying wartime whodunit starring America's First Lady of Mystery is a warmly rewarding look at a fascinating era, and at a woman beloved by her family and her country as she scours the nation's capital for clues in search of a killer... It's 1943 and the eve of the Trident Conference, a highly classified council attended by FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower with the purpose of planning an... (more)

Eleanor (Picture Puffins)

by Barbara Cooney

Though she came from a wealthy and privileged family, Eleanor Roosevelt grew up in a cheerless household that left her lonely and shy. Years passed before Eleanor began to discover in herself the qualities of intelligence, compassion, and strength that made her a remarkable woman. In Eleanor, two-time Caldecott Medal winner Barbara Cooney paints a meticulously researched, lushly detailed picture of Eleanor's... (more)

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (Library of American Biography Series) (3rd Edition) (Library of American Biography)

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (Library of American Biography Series) (3rd Edition) (Library of American Biography)

by Oscar Handlin, J. William T. Youngs

This biography offers a clear, concise and moving portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her wisdom, kindness, trials and tribulations serve as wonderful examples of the power of human dignity, and of the ability of extraordinary people to captivate America . The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history... (more)

People of the Century: One Hundred Men And Women Who Shaped The Last One Hundred Years

People of the Century: One Hundred Men And Women Who Shaped The Last One Hundred Years

by The editors of Time-life, Inc CBS

This is the century that split the atom, probed the psyche, spliced genes, and cloned a sheep. Plastic, the silicon chip, and rock-and-roll were invented. Airplanes, rockets, satellites, televisions, computers, and atom bombs were built. Traditional ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics, economics, and even space and time were overthrown and radically refashioned. People of the Century presents the... (more)

The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

by Margaret Truman

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In this splendid blend of the personal and historic, Margaret Truman offers an... (more)

Murder in the Executive Mansion: The King And Queen of England Are Coming to the White House...And so is the Killer (An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery)

Murder in the Executive Mansion: The King And Queen of England Are Coming to the White House...And so is the Killer (An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery)

by Elliott Roosevelt

The First Lady was smiling for the cameras. But the Shirley Temple look-alike contest was the furthest thing from Eleanor's mind... Her duties range from the ridiculous to the sublime. But her keen mind is honed in on one matter. After a state visit from the King and Queen of England, the body of a young woman, a seemingly innocent White House employee, is discovered on the third floor of the Executive Mansion.... (more)

The White House Pantry Murder/an Eleanor Roosevelt MysteryElliott Roosevelt

The White House Pantry Murder/an Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery

by Elliott Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt proves the undoing of Nazis who penetrate the White House in her son's fourth mystery. Roosevelt revives the tense Christmas season in 1941 after Pearl Harbor, when Prime Minister Churchill and his retinue were the President's guests. Their conferences on strategies are incorporated into the fictional events in which a corpse is discovered stuffed into the White House refrigerator. The Secret... (more)

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride: Based on a True Story

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride: Based on a True Story

by Pam Munoz Ryan, Brian Selznick

One evening in April 1933, Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt stole away from a White House dinner, commandeered an airplane and took off on a glorious adventure over Washington D.C. - while still dressed in their glamorous evening gowns! This picture book celebrates the courage and pioneering spirit of two great friends and American heroes.

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

by Jonathan Alter

This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest... (more)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum

Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.

Eleanor Roosevelt

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic second volume, Cook takes readers through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the... (more)

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by Joseph E. Persico

by J. Kevin Sheehan

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

by Russell Freedman

by Gerald Kolpan

by Elliott Roosevelt

by Eleanor Roosevelt

by Joseph P. Lash

by Eleanor Roosevelt

by Elliott Roosevelt

by Barbara Cooney

by Oscar Handlin, J. William T. Youngs

by The editors of Time-life, Inc CBS

by Margaret Truman

by Elliott Roosevelt

by Elliott Roosevelt

by Pam Munoz Ryan, Brian Selznick

by Jonathan Alter

by Happy Traum

by Blanche Wiesen Cook