Eleanor Roosevelt

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

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  —–. Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program (Cornell University Press, 1959)

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  —–, ed. American Labor Since the New Deal (Quadrangle Books, 1969)

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  —–. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching (Columbia University Press, 1979).

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  —–, and David Rosner. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in 20th Century America (Princeton University Press, 1991).

  —–. Children, Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s Northside Center (University of Virginia Press, 1996).

  —–, eds. Dying for Work: Essays on Workers’ Safety and Health in 20th Century America (Indiana University Press, 1987).

  —–, eds. Slaves of the Depression: Workers’ Letters About Life on the Job (Cornell University Press, 1987).

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  —–. Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work (Yale University Press, 1995).

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  —–, ed. The Negro in Depression and War: Prelude to Revolution, 1930–1945 (Quadrangle Books, 1969).

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  COLLECTIVE SECURITY OR ISOLATION:

  THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF 1933–1938

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