Dear Mrs Roosevelt

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786126X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mrs. Roosevelt written by Robert Cohen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 needy youths, and she was adamant in insisting that federal aid to young people be administered without discrimination so that it reached blacks as well as whites, girls as well as boys. This activism made Mrs. Roosevelt a beloved figure among poor teens and children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing their problems and requesting her help. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt presents nearly 200 of these extraordinary documents to open a window into the lives of the Depression's youngest victims. In their own words, the letter writers confide what it was like to be needy and young during the worst economic crisis in American history. Revealing both the strengths and the limitations of New Deal liberalism, this book depicts an administration concerned and caring enough to elicit such moving appeals for help yet unable to respond in the very personal ways the letter writers hoped.

Author : Cathy D. Knepper
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786717729
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mrs. Roosevelt written by Cathy D. Knepper and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection of letters offers a uniquely intimate view of our nation's most challenging era, as well as a refreshingly personal portrait of a woman in the White House dedicated to aiding the less fortunate. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt is history from the grassroots, a testament to Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on the American consciousness, and her effectiveness in catalyzing social change.

Author : Paul Bernstein
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418474827
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to Eleanor written by Paul Bernstein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to Eleanor: Voices of the Great Depression examines how the flood of letters from ordinary Americans to the First Lady established a bond of hope and trust. Through this paper trail, Eleanor Roosevelt was able to help many petitioners find jobs, food, housing, and clothes. To others she offered the encouragement and support many needed in the bleak Thirties. Through it all Eleanor Roosevelt exhibited a tradionalist social outlook by her support of homemakers and opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. But as the New Deal matured, she became an ardent reformer who fought for an anti-lynching law and job opportunity for women in the federal service. But beneath her incessant activity to help others there was an inner Eleanor who constantly sought emotional support from female colleagues or her distant correspondents, a support she did not receive form FDR or her family.

Author : Dwight Young
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200878
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear First Lady written by Dwight Young and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects letters, some of which appear as full-size facsimiles, written over the centuries to America's first ladies by ordinary citizens and famous figures, and includes historical information to illuminate the writer's concerns and ideas.

Author : C. Coco De Young
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307487423
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt written by C. Coco De Young and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it's 1933, and the Great Depression is changing things for families all across America. One day the impossible happens: Papa cannot make the payments for their house, and the Sheriff Sale sign goes up on their door. They have two weeks to pay the bank, or leave their home forever. Now Margo is afraid--but she's also determined to find a way to help Papa save their home.

Author : Cathy D. Knepper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mrs. Roosevelt written by Cathy D. Knepper and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knepper has put together a collection of letters from ordinary citizens to the nation's most beloved First Lady during the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II.

Author : Cathy D. Knepper
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786713974
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mrs. Roosevelt written by Cathy D. Knepper and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents two hundred letters written to Eleanor Roosevelt during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and her responses to them.

Author : Edna P. Gurewitsch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497638941
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kindred Souls written by Edna P. Gurewitsch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant and unforgettable true account of the deep, loving friendship between a handsome physician and the former First Lady, as seen on PBS’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History “I love you as I love and have never loved anyone else.” —Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter to Dr. David Gurewitsch, 1955 She was the most famous and admired woman in America. He was a strikingly handsome doctor, eighteen years her junior. Eleanor Roosevelt first met David Gurewitsch in 1944. He was making a house call to a patient when the door opened to reveal the wife of the president of the United States, who had come to help her sick friend. A year later, Gurewitsch was Mrs. Roosevelt’s personal physician, on his way to becoming the great lady’s dearest companion—a relationship that would endure until Mrs. Roosevelt’s death in 1962. Recounting the details of this remarkable union is an intimately involved chronicler: Gurewitsch’s wife, Edna. Kindred Souls is a rare love story—the tale of a friendship between two extraordinary people, based on trust, exchange of confidences, and profound interest in and respect for each other’s work. With perceptiveness, compassion, admiration, and deep affection, the author recalls the final decade and a half of the former First Lady’s exceptional life, from her first encounter with the man who would become Mrs. Gurewitsch’s husband through the blossoming of a unique bond and platonic love. Blended into her tender reminiscences are excerpts from the enduring correspondence between Dr. Gurewitsch and the First Lady, and a collection of personal photographs of the Gurewitsch and Roosevelt families. The result is a revealing portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most beloved icons in the last years of her life—a woman whom the author warmly praises as “one of the few people in this world in which greatness and modesty could coexist.”

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430130407
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt written by David A. Adler and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...A worthwhile and significant addition to any elementary collection." - School Library Journal

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786731400
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Day written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She's perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt is a loud and profound voice for people who want to change the world." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook Named "Woman of the Century" in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column "My Day" for over a quarter of that century, from 1936 to 1962. This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume the most memorable of those columns, written with singular wit, elegance, compassion, and insight -- everything from her personal perspectives on the New Deal and World War II to the painstaking diplomacy required of her as chair of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights after the war to the joys of gardening at her beloved Hyde Park home. To quote Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "What a remarkable woman she was! These sprightly and touching selections from Eleanor Roosevelt's famous column evoke an extraordinary personality." "My Day reminds us how great a woman she was." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution