First lady, diplomat, social activist, political visionary, Eleanor Roosevelt has become one of the most beloved woman in the 20th century. As her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt guided a nation through a devastating Depression and tumultuous world war, Eleanor evolved into one of America's most powerful and eloquent champions for the rights of blacks, working people, women and the poor while working as one of the most prominent advocates of the embryonic United Nations. Now, accompanied by over 200, full color and black and white, rarely seen archival and family photographs, here is the most revealing and intimate biography ever written about this extraordinary person. Hardcover; 244 pages.
