Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

xviii, 765 pp. "Eleanor and Franklin is one of the most highly acclaimed biographies written in recent times. Its author, Joseph Lash, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in Biography, as well as the Francis Parkman Price of the Society of American Historians. Its focus is Elanor Roosevelt and her complex relationship with FDR. Based on her personal papers and ranging from her birth in 1884 to the death of her husband in 1945, this fascinating study reveals new dimensions in a marriage that had a significant impact on the course of American history. Written with great insight and sensitivity by an author who was a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt's for over twenty years, the volume explores the personal, familial and social influences that shaped Eleanor and prepared her for her role as first lady and chief counselor to the president."