The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia

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Maurine Hoffman Beasley, Holly Cowan Shulman, Henry R. Beasley, Greenwood Press
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001 - 628 pàgines
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Perhaps the most important woman in 20th century America, Eleanor Roosevelt fascinates scholar and layperson alike. This exciting encyclopedia brings together basic information illuminating her complex career and making the interaction between her private and public lives accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. Written by scholars--including the most eminent Eleanor Roosevelt and New Deal scholars--journalists, and those who knew her, the 200 plus entries in this book provide easy access to material showing how Eleanor Roosevelt changed the First Lady's role in politics, widened opportunities for women, became a liberal leader during the Cold War era, and served as a guiding spirit at the United Nations. A unique resource, the book provides an introduction to American history through the vantage point of a woman who both represented her times and moved beyond them.

Illuminating her multifaceted career, life, and relationships, The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia offers the reader an unparalleled opportunity to examine the complicated and fascinating life of Eleanor Roosevelt.

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia
Maurine Hoffman Beasley,Holly Cowan Shulman,Henry R. Beasley,Greenwood Press
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Pàgina xxvii - You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.‎
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Pàgina 258 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights...‎
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Pàgina 29 - I've got to get legislation passed by Congress to save America. The Southerners by reason of the seniority rule in Congress are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, they will block every bill I ask Congress to pass to keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk.‎
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Pàgina 234 - Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time. Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just north-east of the corner of your mouth against my lips.‎
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Pàgina 56 - He might have been happier with a wife who was completely uncritical. That I was never able to be, and he had to find it in some other people.‎
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Pàgina 130 - I can judge, only one thing stands out — namely, that on the whole, during the last twenty years, government has been taking increasing cognizance of humanitarian questions, things that deal with the happiness of human beings, such as health, education, security. There is nothing, of course, to prove that this is entirely because of the women's interest, and yet I think it is significant that this change has come about during the period when women have been exercising their franchise.‎
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Pàgina xxvii - For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.‎
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Pàgina 494 - But for myself I was deeply troubled. As I saw it, this meant the end of any personal life of my own. I knew what traditionally should lie before me; I had watched Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and had seen what it meant to be the wife of a president, and I cannot say that I was pleased at the prospect.‎
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Pàgina 295 - Act of 1935, the Social Security Act of 1935, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.‎
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Sobre l'autor (2001)

MAURINE H. BEASLEY is Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where she specializes in women and media. She has published seven books, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment (1987) and The White House Conferences of Eleanor Roosevelt (1983).

HOLLY C. SHULMAN is Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. She focused initially on media history and is the author of The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941-1945 (1990).

HENRY R. BEASLEY has been Director of International Affairs for the National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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TítolThe Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia
ABC-Clio ebook
EditorsMaurine Hoffman Beasley, Holly Cowan Shulman, Henry R. Beasley, Greenwood Press
Col·laboradorsBlanche Wiesen Cook, James MacGregor Burns
Edicióil·lustrada
EditorGreenwood Publishing Group, 2001
ISBN0313301816, 9780313301810
Nre. de pàgines628 pàgines
  
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