Eleanor roosevelt biography blanche cook

This volume covers ER's family and birth, her childhood, education, and marriage, and ends with FDR's election to the Presidency....

This is the third volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's magisterial biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

  • Blanche Wiesen Cook (born Ap in New York City), Distinguished Professor of history at John Jay College in the City University of New York, is the.
  • This volume covers ER's family and birth, her childhood, education, and marriage, and ends with FDR's election to the Presidency.
  • One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around.
  • A study of the complex and political figure of Eleanor Roosevelt begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage.

    • Blanche Wiesen Cook

    American historian

    Blanche Wiesen Cook

    Blanche Wiesen Cook in 2018

    Born (1941-04-20) April 20, 1941 (age 83)

    New York City

    NationalityAmerican
    Occupation(s)Historian and professor
    Notable workEleanor Roosevelt, 3-volume biography

    Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941 in New York City) is a historian and professor of history.

    She is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award.

    Books

    Cook is the author of a three-volume biography about Eleanor Roosevelt: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884–1933 (published 1992); Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933–1938 (2000); and Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 (2016).

    Volume One was awarded the 1992 Biography prize from the Los Angeles Times.[1] A New York Times review of the third volume called the entire biography a "rich portrait" of the "monumental and inspirational life of Eleanor Roosevelt."[2]