For all the books written about FDR, there's room on the shelf for a great one-volume life that does full justice to who he was, what he overcame and what he achieved. This one isn't it, though it's ...
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Viking, $27.50, 500 pp. On the very first page of her exciting new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook hoists the ...
Beloved and reviled, a spokeswoman for progressive causes who fashioned an independent life within a complicated marriage, Eleanor Roosevelt cuts a surprisingly contemporary figure. For several ...
(“FDR” by Jean Edward Smith, Random House, 858 pages, $35). In January 1943, after meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Casablanca on the African coast to plot future military operations during the ...