EPISODE · Jul 5, 2016 · 5 MIN
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
from Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women · host Reba Jakubowski
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938 Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. 'Engrossing' (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.
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