Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 'Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted.' -- The Wall Street Journal The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. 'Monumental and inspirational...Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years... a] grand biography.' -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR's death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt's death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her