Eleanor Roosevelt, a transformative First Lady, redefined her role through tireless advocacy for human and women's rights. A prolific writer and thinker, she championed dignity and courage. Her ...

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a ...

According to a survey of 242 historians and political scientists, Eleanor Roosevelt is still the best First Lady of all time. In over 30 years of polling by the Siena College Research Institute, ...

ABINGDON, Va. – It started as an idea to write a novel. Growing up in Abingdon, Va., Christa Smith Anderson had heard for years about First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to Whitetop Mountain on Aug.

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that ...

One of my prize possessions is a picture of me standing at attention next to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. It was 1943, and I was a 23-year-old first lieutenant in the WAC in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, ...

Both Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin (POTUS #32, if anyone's counting), grew up very wealthy, so you'd think they'd have developed a taste for living high on the hog. While it seems FDR did ...