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1) Eleanor
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cozy towns like Timber Ridge, North Carolina-the home of Eleanor Swift's delectable pizzeria, A Slice of Delight-don't take well to prima donna celebrities. So no one is particularly pleased when TV host and famous chef Antonio Benet roars into town for a book signing and manages to insult Eleanor, her deliciously saucy sister Maddie, and everyone else within earshot. Insults are one thing, however...but a cold dish of murder is quite another."--Dust...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lorena "Hick" Hickok was a hard-boiled newspaper reporter, but she showed her tender side to the love of her life, Eleanor Roosevelt. Hick and Eleanor could not have been more different. Eleanor was genteel, patrician, and private, the opposite of Lorena. Both women had unhappy childhoods, but Hick's was brutal. She escaped grinding poverty and an abusive father in South Dakota, working as a hired girl before joining a circus. By the time Eleanor...
13) If you ask me
Author
Publisher
D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1946]
Physical Desc
2 preliminary leaves 156 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Selections from the question and answer department conducted by the author in the Ladies' home journal.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women--the "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume G1226
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1930.
Physical Desc
390 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, coats of arms, geneological tables, portraits
Language
English
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