Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786713976 ISBN 13 : 9780786713974

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2004

Synopsis

This remarkable collection of letters offers an intimate view of our nation's most challenging era, and a refreshingly personal portrait of a woman in the White House dedicated to aiding the less fortunate. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt is history from the grassroots and a testament to Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on the American consciousness and her effectiveness in catalyzing social change. Often addressed as "Mrs. President," Eleanor Roosevelt daily received hundreds of letters during her fourteen years as First Lady, and often responded by using the instruments of government to aid her correspondents. Historian Cathy Knepper has selected nearly two hundred of these letters, with many of Mrs. Roosevelt's replies, to tell the story of the Greatest Generation in its own words. The letters come from those impoverished during the Depression, the elderly in search of a pension program, blacks suffering the effects of racism, toilers in the New Deal, and mothers of soldiers during World War II. They transport readers to Oklahoma families forced to abandon their farms, mothers dealing with the blight of urban poverty, soldiers in Europe worried about their families at home, and servicemen in the Pacific desperate for a break from long years of war.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This remarkable collection of letters offers an intimate view of our nation's most challenging era, and a refreshingly personal portrait of a woman in the White House dedicated to aiding the less fortunate. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt is history from the grassroots and a testament to Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on the American consciousness and her effectiveness in catalyzing social change. Often addressed as "Mrs. President," Eleanor Roosevelt daily received hundreds of letters during her fourteen years as First Lady, and often responded by using the instruments of government to aid her correspondents. Historian Cathy Knepper has selected nearly two hundred of these letters, with many of Mrs. Roosevelt's replies, to tell the story of the Greatest Generation in its own words. The letters come from those impoverished during the Depression, the elderly in search of a pension program, blacks suffering the effects of racism, toilers in the New Deal, and mothers of soldiers during World War II. They transport readers to Oklahoma families forced to abandon their farms, mothers dealing with the blight of urban poverty, soldiers in Europe worried about their families at home, and servicemen in the Pacific desperate for a break from long years of war.

Biographie de l'auteur

CATHY D. KNEPPER, PH.D. is the author of Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal. She has a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park, specializing in 20th-century history and culture. She lives in Kensington, Maryland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786713976
• ISBN 13: 9780786713974
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Knepper Cathy D.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible