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9780813928890

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813928890

  • ISBN10:

    0813928893

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-02-22
  • Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
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Summary

Eleanor Roosevelt walked out of the White House more than thepresident's widow. As a nationally syndicated columnist, popular lecturer, author,party leader, and social activist, Roosevelt assured her friends that "myvoice will not be silent." Vowing not to be a "workless worker ina world of work," Roosevelt dedicated her unstinting energy to"winning the peace."The 410documents in The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume 1: The HumanRights Years, 1945-1948, collected from 263 archives in 50 statesand 9 nations, chronicle not only Roosevelt's impact on American politics and theUnited Nations, but also the serious treatment she received from those in power.They disclose the inner workings of Truman's first administration, the UnitedNations, and the major social and political movements of the postwar world. Theyalso reveal the intense struggles Roosevelt's correspondents and advisors hadconfronting a war-scarred world, the conflicting advice they gave her, and thematerial Roosevelt reviewed and the people she consulted while determining her owncourse of action.Using a wide variety of material-- letters, speeches, columns, debates, committee transcripts, telegrams, and diaryentries -- this first of five volumes presents a representative selection of theactions Eleanor Roosevelt took to define, implement, and promote human rights andthe impact her work had at home and abroad. Readers may disagree over variousdecisions she made, language that she used, or the priorities she established. Yether influence is unquestioned.

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Excerpts

"Eleanor Roosevelt once asked, 'Where do human rightsbegin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot beseen on any maps of the world. Such are the places where every man, woman, and childseeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.' Asthe Chair of the United Nations commission drafting the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt worked tirelessly from 1946 to 1948.... ThroughVolume 1 of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, we honor her work, her legacy, hertimeless values and ideals, and her commitment to imagining a better future for allpeople. As you read through this volume, I hope her words will be a call toaction." -- from the foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton

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