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Books on: eleanor roosevelt speeches

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia

Book by Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman, Henry R. Beasley; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Presidents' Spouses--United States--Biography--Encyclopedias, Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962--Encyclopedias, United States--Politics And Government--1933-1945--Encyclopedias, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989--Encyclopedias

Collections: History, Entire Library

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 ...
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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.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Comprehensive Bibliography

Book by John A. Edens; Greenwood Press, 1994

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962--Bibliography

Collections: History, Entire Library

This annotated bibliography of the vast collection of works by and about Eleanor Roosevelt, America's incomparable First Lady and global human rights leader, is the most comprehensive yet made available. The first part of the book is arranged chronologically with chapters on different types of her ...
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This annotated bibliography of the vast collection of works by and about Eleanor Roosevelt, America's incomparable First Lady and global human rights leader, is the most comprehensive yet made available. The first part of the book is arranged chronologically with chapters on different types of her writings. The second part deals with all types of works about her and is arranged alphabetically by author into topical chapters. These chapters feature different periods and aspects of her life and include books, articles, dissertations, writings for young readers, fiction, film, recordings, and computer software. This unique guide to over 3,780 sources, with author and subject indexes and chronology, is designed for collections of all kinds and for use by students, researchers, and anyone interested in this remarkable First Lady and social reformer at a time when the role is again controversial.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Passion to Improve

Book by Ray Spangenburg, Diane K. Moser; Facts on File, 1997

Subjects:

First ladies--United States--Biography, Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature, Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962--Juvenile literature

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Makers of America series provides introductory biographies of major figures in modern American history. Each volume uses documentary evidence and archive photographs.
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Eleanor Roosevelt

Book by Mary Winget; Lerner, 2001

Subjects:

Presidents' Spouses--United States--Biography--Juvenile Literature, Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962--Juvenile Literature

...that Theodore Roosevelt had died. Eleanor felt the loss...repetition, the speeches got longer...teenagers wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt for help...a n Eleanor Roosevelts many newspaper...books, and speeches, she made...
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The Extraordinary Mrs. R: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt

Book by William Turner Levy, Cynthia Eagle Russett; John Wiley & Sons, 1999

Subjects:

Levy, William Turner--1922-, Presidents' Spouses--United States--Biography, Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962, Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962--Friends And Associates

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to read all the speeches, public papers, and...of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde...1m Above all, Eleanor Roosevelt enjoyed seeing to...first name was also Eleanor, but Mrs. Roosevelt called her Ellie...

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Journal Articles on: eleanor roosevelt speeches

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Sandra J. Sarkela, Susan Mallon Ross, and Margaret A. Lowe, from Megaphones to Microphones: Speeches of American Women, 1920-1960

Journal article by Anita Taylor; Women and Language, Vol. 27, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, From Megaphones to Microphones: Speeches of American Women, 1920-1960 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...more than fifty speeches or excerpts from speeches from 48 women; some well known such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Church Terrell, Jane Addams, Clare...both to popular culture and Betty Friedan, speeches from the years 1945-1960 are collected...
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The Politics and Poetry of Advice and Consent: Congress Confronts the Roosevelt Administration during the State Department Confirmation Incident of 1944

Journal article by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998

Subjects:

Presidents--Relations with Congress, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Political activity, United States. Department of State--Political activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...answer. A free press would explain the Senates actions to Roosevelt, and he would understand. "I cannot see how we can get anywhere...The debate went on and on. Most senators made long, lengthy speeches about the nature of U.S. foreign policy, without mentioning...
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The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal: Fiscal Conservatism and the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1938

Journal article by Julian E. Zelizer; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2000

Subjects:

Clinton, Bill--Economic policy, Economic policy--History, Fiscal policy--History, Liberalism--Economic aspects, New Deal, 1933-1939--Research, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Economic policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...author of Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 and winner of the 1998 D. B. Hardeman Prize and the 2000 Ellis Hawley Prize. AUTHORS NOTE: The Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt Institute provided funding for this research.
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Source Material: Toward the Study of the First Lady: The State of Scholarship

Journal article by Robert P. Watson; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

Bush, Barbara, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Presidents--Wives, Reagan, Nancy, Roosevelt, Eleanor, White House Historical Association

Collections: History, Entire Library

...edited presidential speeches, hit the campaign...those serving from Eleanor Roosevelt to the present time...attention paid to Eleanor Roosevelt, popular interest...Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jacqueline Kennedy...
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Critical Incidents in the Evolutionary History of Personal Freedom

Journal article by Russell N. Cassel; College Student Journal, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

Franklin, Benjamin--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hamilton, Alexander--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jefferson, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Liberty--Social aspects, Locke, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Madison, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Roosevelt, Eleanor--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...at best-were due largely to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Presidents wife. In 1928...status of women, .and named Eleanor Roosevelt chairperson. The committee reported...reflected a common perception that Roosevelt was their man. 7. Roosevelt...

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Magazine Articles on: eleanor roosevelt speeches

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Harry S. Truman Presidential Library

Magazine article by Donald H. Rumsfeld; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, March 2, 2006

Subjects:

Rumsfeld, Donald H.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Secretaries of defense--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...as his--she had to succeed Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also a big figure...being in college and watching Eleanor Roosevelt on a corner talking to somebody...many years ago. Shed given, Eleanor Roosevelt, of course, had given a lot...
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Special Operations Forces International Conference (Tampa, FL)

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, May 21, 2008

Subjects:

Gates, Robert M.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Military policy--Speeches, lectures and essays, Secretaries of defense--Speeches, lectures and essays, Special operations (Military science)--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...always as flattering. After visiting Marine Raiders in the Pacific shortly after Guadalcanal and Makin, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged that they be quarantined before returning to civilian life. Although the importance of special operators were...
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Remarks to the Daughters of the American Revolution (Washington, D.C.)

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, July 11, 2008

Subjects:

Gates, Robert M.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Secretaries of defense--Speeches, lectures and essays, Women and the military--Speeches, lectures and essays, Women military personnel--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...of service that spans American history and includes such towering figures such as Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Clare Booth Luce. The first female United States senator, cabinet secretary, and attorney general were all...
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The Right-Wing Mothers of Wartime America

Magazine article by Glen Jeansonne; History Today, Vol. 49, December 1999

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Political activity, United States history--1933-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Protest movements

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt had merged with...she denounced Eleanor Roosevelts proposal to conscript...heartland, delivering speeches, sometimes sponsored...policies of the Roosevelt administration...women to deliver speeches and lobby Congress...
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A Sort of Memoir

Magazine article by Philip Green; The Nation, Vol. 245, August 29, 1987

Subjects:

Ambassadors--Speeches, lectures and essays, Americans for Democratic Action--Political activity, College students--Political activity, Dukakis, Michael S.--Political activity, Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Marzani, Carl--Speeches, lectures and essays, Right and left (Political science)--Personal narratives, Smith College--Management, Swarthmore College--Personal narratives

Collections: Entire Library

...cold war liberalism; a faintly critical but wholly proper politics in which Hubert Humphrey functioned as God and Eleanor Roosevelt as His Mother. My own politics were probably typical. In successive debates in junior high, high school and college...

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Newspaper Articles on: eleanor roosevelt speeches

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Discovering Ways That First Ladies Influenced Their Powerful Spouses

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 10, 2003

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Eleanor, Washington, Martha

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a newspaper column, traveling extensively, making speeches, "empathizing with the poor and powerless," and becoming...connection between the people and the White House," Eleanor Roosevelt was much more active and visible than any previous...
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Revisiting the New Deal

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 11, 2008

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Church in Washington. After his death, Eleanor declared that her husband always considered...faith in spiritual guidance." Franklin Roosevelt repeatedly emphasized the importance...in shaping the republic. In numerous speeches and letters, Roosevelt urged Americans...
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Middling Mummery

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 28, 2006

Subjects:

Bayh, Evan, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Electioneering, Iraq War, 2003-, Political campaigns

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...other than Americans for Democratic Action(founded by Eleanor Roosevelt and Hubert Humphrey), the keeper of the partys liberal...those grades. Mr. Obamas centrist-sounding campaign speeches, inspiring perorations for compromise, unity and bipartisanship...
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Clinton's Defense of Wife Helps Fuel Bosnia Trip Flak; Ex-President's Account at Odds

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 12, 2008

Subjects:

Ex-presidents

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...lady to visit a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt in World War II, said Gen. Wesley...the story in several campaign speeches, once in a prepared foreign policy...visit a combat zone since Mrs. Roosevelt - Pat Nixon visited Saigon during...
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Another First for First Ladies

Newspaper article by Suzanne Fields; The Washington Times, January 11, 1996

Subjects:

WhiteWater

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...project? 4) to receive an honorary degree? 5) to give speeches on the radio? 6) to be named to an official government...Edith Wilson 4) Grace Coolidge. 5) Lou Hoofer. 6) Eleanor Roosevelt, assistant director, Office of Civil Defense. 7...

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