Eleanor: The Years Alone

by Joseph P. Lash

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393247664
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	889,042
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

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

|Los Angeles Times

"Moving…Above all, [Lash] has conveyed with critical affection the essence of Eleanor Roosevelt."

New York Times Book Review

"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

"Inspiring…Hers was a life which tells us that the human spirit is indomitable"

Christian Science Monitor

"A remarkable achievement…as rich as [Lash's] understanding of the remarkable human being he celebrates."

The New Yorker