Books with author Eleanor Roosevelt

Excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hyde Park: Personal Recollections of Eleanor RooseveltThe oldest untouched forest borders the River Road from the field below the house to the swamp. It is one of the very few pri meyal forests on the river. It has never been lumbered and only live trees which had blown over have been cut up. The forest north of the original place has, however, been lumbered from time to time. Colonel Archibald Rogers developed the timber there on the strip between the line of the original place and the Stone Cottage Roadwhich was bought by me in about 1930. [it] was well developed by 1944, and I took much oak out of this for war-shipping purposes.About feet north of the present railroad siding was a piece of land outside of the track and my father, who did much rowing in a wherry, built a boathouse here and during my early days I was taught to row-sometime about 1890.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"The Hudson River Valley was in my husband's blood. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's family owned land in and around Poughkeepsie and along the banks of the Hudson River for four generations, but even before that his Roosevelt ancestors lived just a bit farther down the Hudson River. His mother's father built a home new Newburgh, N. Y., and she grew up there; so the river in all of its aspects and the countryside as a whole were familiar and deeply rooted in my husband's consciousness......."

No words could more completely characterize Eleanor Roosevelt and the life chronicled here, than these from the Preface: "Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn one's back on life." Eleanor Roosevelt was undoubtedly one of the world's most loved, respected, and celebrated human beings. In this delightful autobiography, she tells her own story with characteristic warmth, candor, wisdom, and breadth of view.

At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower-the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.

Excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hyde Park: Personal Recollections of Eleanor Roosevelt The oldest untouched forest borders the River Road from the field below the house to the swamp. It is one of the very few pri meyal forests on the river. It has never been lumbered and only live trees which had blown over have been cut up. The forest north of the original place has, however, been lumbered from time to time. Colonel Archibald Rogers developed the timber there on the strip between the line of the original place and the Stone Cottage Roadwhich was bought by me in about 1930. [it] was well developed by 1944, and I took much oak out of this for war-shipping purposes. About feet north of the present railroad siding was a piece of land outside of the track and my father, who did much rowing in a wherry, built a boathouse here and during my early days I was taught to row-sometime about 1890. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book."--Jill Lepore, from the Introduction"Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part--cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going.Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.