Download This Image
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.
  1. black
  2. grey
  3. blue
  4. red
  5. brown
  6. white

The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout.

    I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - She’s very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they’re accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli. Download This Image

    She’s very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they’re accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And Eleanor Roosevelt’s really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.

    And Eleanor Roosevelt’s really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he’s a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners.

    She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he’s a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American’s entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again – ’33, ’35.

    The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American’s entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again – ’33, ’35.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it’s very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters. Download This Image

    I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it’s very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It’s about fun. And it’s also about politics.

    I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It’s about fun. And it’s also about politics.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and – and to make her live, you know, make her want to live.

    Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and – and to make her live, you know, make her want to live.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn’t a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother.

    A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn’t a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I think Eleanor Roosevelt’s so popular at Allenswood because it’s the first time she is, number one, free. But it’s the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

    I think Eleanor Roosevelt’s so popular at Allenswood because it’s the first time she is, number one, free. But it’s the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - I mean, in the campaign of ’24 and in ’28 and ’32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates.

    I mean, in the campaign of ’24 and in ’28 and ’32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women’s movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

    She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women’s movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

    They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And there’s something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents’ death.

    And there’s something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents’ death.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote - And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn’t bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn’t.

    And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn’t bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn’t.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Blanche Wiesen Cook Quote -

    Eleanor Roosevelt doesn’t ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things.

    BLANCHE WIESEN COOK