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"This is escape reading at its best. So stretch out under the beach umbrella or curl up in an easy chair with this beautifully designed facsimile of a family scrapbook. Enjoy imagining yourself to be the beloved niece of the First Lady of the World, and a member of one of America’s oldest and finest families—the Roosevelts."
-Dorothy Davis
Education Update Online
"A rare and profoundly moving collection of personal photographs and drawings; intimate and wise observations."
- Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volumes 1 and 2
"A treasury of wonderfully
informal photographs accompany Eleanor II's lively, often funny but always discerning anecdotes; tales that offer an intimate,
affectionate, and humanizing portrait..."
- Starred Booklist review
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Excerpts from With Love, Aunt Eleanor:
I was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1919. My mother was Margaret Richardson, daughter of a famous surgeon, and my father was G. Hall Roosevelt, brother of Eleanor Roosevelt. The name I was given has shaped my life, and I consider myself fortunate. Not only was I born into an interesting family, but I was named after an extraordinary member of that family, Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Almost as soon as I realized that my name was familiar to most people, I was also made aware of the fact that it caused considerable controversy. To mention my relationship to either Franklin or Eleanor Roosevelt guaranteed a response, not always flattering. Oh, you poor thing, they would say. Well, I guess it isnt your fault whom you were named for. Or Your uncle, you say? Just let me tell you that your uncle is taking this country right straight to ruin!
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The spring of 1962 was the first time I ever heard Aunt Eleanor admit that she felt tired. She was seventy-eight and acknowledged that she didnt have the energy anymore to fight for all the humanitarian causes she had championed all her life. She had dutifully followed her fathers admonition to help people less fortunate than herself and, in fact, had achieved more for human rights and womens rights and world peace than had any other woman I could think of.
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Aunt Eleanor had very little patience with physical ailments. She believed she could simply deny and dismiss them and get on with her busy schedule. She had learned that it helped to lie down for a couple of hours if she felt a flu coming on, but if it was simply a painful back or aching head, the best approach was to ignore it. We all felt a little intimidated by her strength of character and certainly reluctant to admit to any ailment ourselves, least of all fatigue.
Also from the book:
She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
ADLAI STEVENSON
Katherine Hepburn based her role in The African Queen on Eleanor Roosevelt.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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