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Casting Her Own Shadow - Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism (Paperback, Revised)
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Casting Her Own Shadow - Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism (Paperback, Revised)
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Eleanor Roosevelt receives her due as a leading influence on recent
American liberal thought. Roosevelt spent much of her life laboring
in the shadow of her husband, president of the US for an
unprecedented 13 years. In the 17 years remaining to her after his
death, when she no longer had to defer to his political
requirements, Roosevelt reveled in developing what Black
(History/George Washington Univ.) calls "the expertise necessary to
build a legacy of her own." Black ably emphasizes the key points of
that legacy, among them an enduring commitment to civil rights and
women's issues, which Roosevelt had been pressing since the 1920s.
Long a political activist and writer - her opinion pieces and
journalism ran in such venues as Redbook, the New York Times, and
the North American Review - Roosevelt had early on established a
reputation of her own; Black makes the interesting claim that,
thanks to her writing, Roosevelt was better known than her husband
when he entered national politics, and she shows how Roosevelt
maintained her own identity even as her husband's advisors urged
her to keep a lower profile. Black's book is weakened somewhat by
its organization, which focuses on themes at the expense of
chronological development, but it is nonetheless a thoughtful study
in Roosevelt's sophisticated political ideas, including her
embracing definition of multicultural democracy well before such an
idea became current. Black covers Roosevelt's work in dismantling
racism, promoting full employment and worker's rights, and
combating the excesses of the Red Scare era. She also quotes widely
from Roosevelt's written work, reminding readers of her subject's
commonsensical and good-humored approach to the issues of the day.
In Black's useful account, Roosevelt resembles no one so much as
Hillary Clinton, whose recent work as a politician and newspaper
columnist recapitulates Roosevelt's own career - and who, as a
political wife, has been similarly reviled and similarly admired
for holding ideas of her own. (Kirkus Reviews)
'This vital study reconstructs Eleanor Roosevelt's role as a major
power broker from 1945 until her death in 1962....[ Roosevelt's ]
principled stand for low-cost and public housing, affirmative
action, regulation of corporations, U.S. support for the United
Nations--key planks in the liberal agenda under siege today--makes
this a timely reassessment.'--Publishers Weekly
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