Eleanor: The Years Alone

Eleanor: The Years Alone

Joseph P. Lash
$15.95
Publication Date: September 8th, 2014
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393349764
Pages:
416

Description

A New York Times Bestseller

"Lash has reached the highest level of the biographer’s art…Astounding." —Wall Street Journal

Joseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and National Book Award-winning writer of Eleanor and Franklin, turns to the seventeen years Eleanor Roosevelt lived after FDR's death in 1945. Already a major figure in her own right, Roosevelt gained new stature with her work at the United Nations and her contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her activism on behalf of civil rights, as well as her humanitarian work, which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World. Lash has created an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person.

About the Author

Joseph P. Lash (1909–1987) was secretary and confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt and the author of numerous acclaimed books.

Praise for Eleanor: The Years Alone

A remarkable achievement…as rich as [Lash's] understanding of the remarkable human being he celebrates.
— The New Yorker

Moving…Above all, [Lash] has conveyed with critical affection the essence of Eleanor Roosevelt.
— New York Times Book Review

The story Eleanor thought was over when her husband died…It is her capacity for love which shines through these pages.
— Los Angeles Times

Inspiring…Hers was a life which tells us that the human spirit is indomitable
— Christian Science Monitor

Lash has succeeded in digging deeper, in portraying more richly, and in more profoundly stirring the reader's emotions with Eleanor alone.
— San Francisco Chronicle