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Eleanor in the Village : Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village /

A vivid account of a critical chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady. Hundreds of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [2021]
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Eleanor, > 1884-1962.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, > 1884-1962 > Friends and associates.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women > New York (State) > New York > Anecdotes.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies.
HISTORY / Women.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Gilded Age in New York City
  • New York, New York
  • The hard years
  • The making of a heroine
  • The dream of love
  • Wife and mother
  • Victorian restraint, upended
  • Bohemians and prohibition in the Village
  • Eleanor in Greenwich Village
  • Polio strikes
  • Franklin and Eleanor, the years apart
  • J. Edgar Hoover in the Village
  • Finding her own way
  • The Governor's Mansion
  • Eleanor Roosevelt's erotic relationship
  • Eleanor as First Lady
  • Eleanor and Joseph Lash
  • J. Edgar Hoover takes on Eleanor
  • The death of the President
  • Without Franklin
  • Eleanor and John F. Kennedy
  • The first feminist.