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For Franklin and Eleanor this was the beginning of a remarkable partnership. FDR did not insist his wife drop anything she cared about to become first lady, and Eleanor undertook to support her husband’s public career in every way possible. They would have different priorities and different interests. They would often disagree. Their personal lives
... See moreJean Edward Smith • FDR
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Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
According to Dickerman’s account, ER’s tone was almost “hysterical.” She could not “bear to become First Lady!” She did not wish to be “a prisoner in the White House, forced onto a narrow treadmill of formal receptions, ‘openings,’ dedications, teas, official dinners.”
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
TR recalled the typical American for whom he had governed. In his Autobiography, the former president reprinted a cartoon of an elderly, bewhiskered man, his feet by a fire, reading a copy of “The President’s Message” in a newspaper. The caption: “His Favorite Author.” TR loved it. “This was the old fellow whom I always used to keep in my mind,”
... See moreJon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Myrtilla Miner may have been ‘frail’, as Frederick Douglass observed, but she was definitely formidable, and was always able, at lesson time, to discover the eye of that racist storm. Early one morning, however, she was abruptly awakened by the odor of smoke and raging flames, which soon consumed her schoolhouse. Although her school was destroyed,
... See moreAngela Y. Davis • Women, Race & Class (Penguin Modern Classics)
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