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Letters to Eleanor - Voices of the Great Depression

English · Paperback / Softback

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Letters to Eleanor: Voices of the Great Depression examines how the flood of letters from ordinary Americans to the First Lady established a bond of hope and trust. Through this paper trail, Eleanor Roosevelt was able to help many petitioners find jobs, food, housing, and clothes. To others she offered the encouragement and support many needed in the bleak Thirties.
Through it all Eleanor Roosevelt exhibited a tradionalist social outlook by her support of homemakers and opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. But as the New Deal matured, she became an ardent reformer who fought for an anti-lynching law and job opportunity for women in the federal service.
But beneath her incessant activity to help others there was an inner Eleanor who constantly sought emotional support from female colleagues or her distant correspondents, a support she did not receive form FDR or her family.

Product details

Authors Paul Bernstein
Publisher Authorhouse
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 05.10.2004
 
EAN 9781418474812
ISBN 978-1-4184-7481-2
No. of pages 328
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Weight 534 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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