ENGLISH

Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson

By Richard Henry

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
023061826X, 9780230618268
LCC
E807.1.R48 H45 2010
Open Library ID
OL24019284M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1993560 bytes)
Series
World of the Roosevelt's
Pages
252\252
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson--unexplored in depth by scholars until this study--was one of the last century's remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise, one in which the fulfillment of its "mission" was the betterment of the human condition. This belief was the foundation upon which their legislative initiatives were constructed. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service.

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