Eleanor: The Years Alone - Softcover

Lash, Joseph P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393349764 ISBN 13: 9780393349764

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

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.

20 photographs

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393349764
• ISBN 13: 9780393349764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416