A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 19041953,Used

A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 19041953,Used

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A remarkable correspondence between two quite formidable and wonderful women, who were also utterly enmeshed in women's traditional world as well as the public world.'Mary Logan Rothschild, coauthor of Doing What the Day Brought: An Oral History of Arizona Women'[Kristie] Miller and [Robert] McGinnis have done a real service to history and biography. Both Mrs. Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway were extraordinary women. I am delighted their relationship has finally been penned to paper.'Geoffrey C. Ward, author of A FirstClass Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American HistoriansIn these intimate letters, Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway chronicle a fiftyyear friendship dating back to their school days at the beginning of the twentieth century. They share family concerns, discuss national and world affairs, support each other in times of personal tragedy, and chart their respective political careersRoosevelt as a social reformer and first lady and Greenway as Arizona's first congresswoman. Kristie Miller's and Robert McGinnis's astute analysis and insightful commentary enable scholars and general readers to view this remarkable correspondence against the backdrop of state and national politics, the Depression and New Deal, and the changing roles of women in American society.

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