Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume 1, 1884-1933 / [electronic resource] Blanche Wiesen Cook.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ancestry and heritage -- Elliott and Anna -- Childhood of tears and loss -- Years of dreams and longing -- Allenswood and Marie Souvestre -- Coming out and courting -- Franklin and me, and Sarah makes three -- Eleanor Roosevelt, political wife -- Roosevelts in Wilson's Washington -- 1919-20: Race riots and red scare, grief and renewal -- Campaign of 1920 and Louis Howe -- ER and the new women of the 1920s: Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, first feminist friends -- Convalescence, maritial unity, and separate spheres: Polio, val-kill, and warm springs -- ER, political boss -- New York's first lady, part-time -- Teaching and Todhunter -- ER at forty-five -- Earl Miller: Champion of her own -- Assignment ER: Lorena Hidkok and the 1932 campaign -- First lady's first friend -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.