Last things first. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the third volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the way it ends. I don't think I've ever read another ...

"Eleanor," as brought to life by Jean Stapleton on Arena's Kreeger stage, is a historical novel reincarnated as a stage play. If that sounds a tad metaphysical, well, that's only fitting. "I lived in ...

Pioneering first lady Eleanor Roosevelt got the fully fleshed portrait she deserved in the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography, which told the compelling story of a shy, lonely rich girl ...

Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin ...

Eleanor Roosevelt was a diplomat and social activist, and served as first lady during the presidency of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was active in Democratic Party politics and an advocate ...

Fiction bolstered by history and biography has been enormously popular in recent years. Best-sellers ranging from “The Paris Wife,” by Paula McLain, to “Loving Frank,” by Nancy Horan, have fascinated ...

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly... Volume 3 Of Eleanor Roosevelt Biography Chronicles ...