Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, 3rd edition

This biography offers a clear, concise and moving portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her wisdom, kindness, trials and tribulations serve as wonderful examples of the power of human dignity, and of the ability of extraordinary people to captivate America.

The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

• In this edition, Youngs adds a new section of study and discussion questions which provoke students to think about Eleanor Roosevelt's life in new and different ways through conversation and discussion.
• Scholarship lends even more depth to this biography, offering more coverage of Eleanor's relationship with Lorna Hickok, her stance on Equal Rights, her wartime activities, and her postwar liberalism.
• A new Preface highlights the reasons why Youngs chose to focus extensively on Eleanor Roosevelt’s childhood and upbringing, instead of the more standard attention on her as a first lady and a widow.