Eleanor and Franklin
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Webb, Sidney, 184
Weber, Max, 571
Wechsler, James A., 897
Welles, Sumner, 715, 718–19, 726, 727, 733, 835, 889
West, James E., 696
White, Capt. Robert M., 875
White, Walter, 594, 595, 647, 648, 651–56, 661, 662, 666, 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672–73, 674, 676, 678, 852, 853, 855, 857, 864, 904
White, William Allen, 781
Whitehead, Alfred North, 595
Whitehead, Harry, 407
Whitney, William C., 497
Wigner, Eugene, 898, 899, 901
Wilhelmina, Queen, 846
Wilkins, Roy, 674
Willert, Lady Florence, 481, 510, 682, 806
Williams, Aubrey, 582, 589, 636, 639, 661, 669, 674–75, 676, 677–78, 763, 764, 766, 778
racial issue and, 649
youth movement and, 681, 684, 685, 687, 689, 694, 697, 700, 701n
Williams, Charl, 360, 917
Willkie, Wendell, 669, 672, 787, 791n, 798, 799, 800–801, 802–3, 806, 826, 846, 865, 896
Wilmerding, Helen, see Cutting, Helen
Wilmerding, Lucius, 178
Wilson, Margaret, 265
Wilson, M. L.:
and Subsistence Homestead Program, 496, 497–99, 500, 504, 505–6, 512, 523
visits with Roosevelts, 496–97
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow, 265, 284, 912
Wilson, Woodrow, 216–18, 224, 229–30, 231, 232, 233, 246, 248–49, 250, 251, 252–54, 256, 257, 267, 282, 283, 284, 287–90, 307, 309, 350, 351, 390, 671, 750
Eleanor’s views on, 282
Franklin backs in 1912, 216–17, 218
gossip concerning in Paris, 284
inaugural address of, 229
and 1916 elections, 252
Paris Peace Conference and, 282, 287
Theodore Roosevelt’s death and, 283
World War I and, 248–49, 250–51, 252–54
Winant, Gilbert, 837, 838, 849
Winchell, Walter, 829
Winston, Owen, 172
Winthrop, Bronson, 156
Wirt, Dr. William A., 501–2, 746
Wise, John Sargeant, 28
Women’s Trade union League, 348–50, 361
see also Roosevelt, Eleanor
Wood, Gen. Leonard, 257, 750
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 350
Woodward, Ellen S., 486
Woolf, S. J., 429
is taken with Eleanor, 388–89
Workers Alliance, 757–58, 766–67, 773
see also Roosevelt, Eleanor
World Court, 352, 354, 432–34, 706
see also Roosevelt, Eleanor; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Wright, Richard, 663–64
Young, Owen D., 387, 433
Zabriskie, Josie (Mrs. Edward Hall), 112
PRAISE FOR ELEANOR AND FRANKLIN
“The intimate chronicle of a woman and a marriage. The woman was Eleanor Roosevelt, and her marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt—with its painful secrets and public triumphs—played a vital role not only in the lives of these two extraordinary human beings but in the lives of all humanity. Here is one of the great and moving stories of our time—a masterpiece of vivid evocation and sympathetic understanding. ‘Monumental.’ ”
—New York Times
“WHOLLY ABSORBING AND RICHLY DOCUMENTED. . . . Eleanor Roosevelt’s major burdens as a woman were two: the first was Sara Delano Roosevelt, her mother-in-law, oppressor, tyrant, self-appointed possessor of her son Franklin and every thing and person close to him. The other was Eleanor’s burden of anguish born through Franklin’s love affair with Lucy Mercer, whom Eleanor had employed as a social secretary.”
—Marya Mannes, The Atlantic
“AN EXCEPTIONALLY CANDID, EXHAUSTIVE . . . HEARTRENDING BOOK. . . . The highest praise one can pay Mr. Lash is that he has proved worthy in every particular of an immense and chancy undertaking.”
—Brendan Gill, The New Yorker
“A STUNNING, MAGNIFICENT ACHIEVEMENT—that combination of scholarship and narrative drive which is so rare. I had thought I understood Eleanor Roosevelt. Now I know how little I knew.”
—William Manchester
“EXTRAORDINARY . . . a unique American drama!”
—William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle
“A MARVELOUS BOOK.”
—Donald Meyer, The New Republic
Copyright © 1971 by Joseph P. Lash.
Foreword copyright © 1971 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Introduction copyright © 1971 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. from The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes by Harold L. Ickes; copyright © 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; copyright renewed © 1981 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; all rights reserved. Eleanor Roosevelt’s article “I Remember Hyde Park,” McCall’s Magazine, February 1963, by permission of Nancy Roosevelt Ireland. Twenty-seven quotations totaling 517 words from This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt; copyright © 1949 by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, renewed © 1977 by John A. Roosevelt and Franklin A. Roosevelt, Jr.; reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Nancy Roosevelt Ireland. Twelve quotations totaling 307 words from This Is My Story by Eleanor Roosevelt; copyright © 1937 by Anne Eleanor Roosevelt; copyright renewed 1965 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and John Roosevelt; reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Nancy Roosevelt Ireland.
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