Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelts first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as shes known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful...

"Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the "Blonde Tigress" and "the most dangerous woman alive." Using recently unearthed records, Pettem reveals how Jarman got caught up in a Chicago crime spree, was convicted as an accomplice to murder, and in 1940 escaped prison to become America's longest-running female fugitive"--

A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

Traces the influential First Lady's rise from an insecure orphaned girl of privilege to a powerful advocate for civil rights and other important causes.

Eleanor Roosevelt chronicles the years she spent with her husband, former president Franklin Roosevelt, focusing on their years in the White House and her husband's life, character, and objectives.

In the year leading up to her thirtieth birthday, the author, a former media blogger, turns to Eleanor Roosevelt for guidance as she spends the last months of her twenties pursuing a "year of fear" during which she embarks on many adventures.

Presents the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became a great humanitarian.

A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.

When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok--Hick--is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms into an enduring, encompassing friendship that ends only with both women's deaths in the 1960s--all of...

The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Includes historical notes on her later life.