it’s not at all clear that we have yet caught up to her.” As we ponder our curdled political culture. In her relentless efforts to push American democracy to fulfill its promises, Eleanor Roosevelt was ahead of her time. “A monumental biography an exhilarating story, as well as undeniably melancholy one. Volume 3 continues the story of Eleanor’s ‘journey to greatness.’ Keeping the focus on her actions and reactions, Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years.” “he completion of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s monumental and inspirational life of Eleanor Roosevelt is a notable event. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique. This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people. FDR’s death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations. These years-the war years-made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal.

Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues-economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue-when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR’s death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962. Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. “Monumental and inspirational…Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years… grand biography.” - The New York Times Book Review The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. 'Heartachingly relevant.the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted.' - The Wall Street Journal One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016

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