Eleanor Roosevelt

In this annotated collection of candid advice columns that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote for Ladies Home Journal, no question was too trivial and no topic was out of bounds. Practical, warm-hearted, and often witty, her answers were so forthright her editors included a disclaimer that her views were not necessarily those of the magazines-- or the Roosevelt administration. From war, peace, and politics to love, marriage, religion, and popular culture, these...

A collection of writings

An updated version of an introduction to American government originally available in 1932 covers public services, local and state governments, legislation, Congress, the president, the cabinet, taxes, courts, and voting.

Previously unpublished correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt offers insight into their sometimes turbulent friendship as it occurred against a backdrop of the Cold War and the rebuilding of postwar Europe.

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another...

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt offers advice on how people can create a satisfying life under any circumstances.

Traces the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, who developed the role of the activist first lady while her husband was president, and worked on behalf of women's rights, and human rights around the world.