Author: Lisa NowakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report for Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site: Introduction, site history, existing conditions, analysis
Author: Lisa NowakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report for Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site: Treatment
Author: Lisa NowakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report for Springwood, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Author: Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, General Management Plan
Author: Eleanor
Author: David MichaelisPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1439192014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women. In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation. When Eleanor discovered Franklin’s betrayal with her younger, prettier social secretary, Lucy Mercer, she offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. Here is an Eleanor both more vulnerable and more aggressive, more psychologically aware and sexually adaptable than we knew. She came to accept FDR’s bond with his executive assistant, Missy LeHand; she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could; and she explored her sexual attraction to women, among them a star female reporter on FDR’s first presidential campaign, and younger men. Eleanor needed emotional connection. She pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. As FDR struggled to recover from polio, Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, her husband’s proxy in presidential ambition, and then the people’s proxy in the White House. Later, she would be the architect of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age, urging Americans to cope with the anxiety of global annihilation by cultivating a “world mind.” She insisted that we cannot live for ourselves alone but must learn to live together or we will die together. Drawing on new research, Michaelis’s riveting portrait is not just a comprehensive biography of a major American figure, but the story of an American ideal: how our freedom is always a choice. Eleanor rediscovers a model of what is noble and evergreen in the American character, a model we need today more than ever.
Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America [2 volumes]
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Author: Mitchell Newton-MatzaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610697502
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Exploring the significance of places that built our cultural past, this guide is a lens into historical sites spanning the entire history of the United States, from Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero. Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America: From Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero encompasses more than 200 sites from the earliest settlements to the present, covering a wide variety of locations. It includes concise yet detailed entries on each landmark that explain its importance to the nation. With entries arranged alphabetically according to the name of the site and the state in which it resides, this work covers both obscure and famous landmarks to demonstrate how a nation can grow and change with the creation or discovery of important places. The volume explores the ways different cultures viewed, revered, or even vilified these sites. It also examines why people remember such places more than others. Accessible to both novice and expert readers, this well-researched guide will appeal to anyone from high school students to general adult readers.
Preserving Historic Landscapes
Author: Cultural Landscape Report for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Site history, existing conditions, and analysis
Author: Patricia M. O'DonnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hyde Park (Dutchess County, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
Author: Patricia M. O'DonnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hyde Park (Dutchess County, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports
Author: Robert R. PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic preservation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description