Books by Blanche Wiesen Cook and Complete Book Reviews

Blanche Wiesen Cook, Author Viking $27.5 (624p) ISBN 978-0-670-80486-3
This highly readable, well-researched work of feminist scholarship erases the image of the young Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) as a long suffering, repressed wife and presents her as a strong, ever-evolving individual who overcame an emotionally...
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Blanche Wiesen Cook, Author Viking Books $34.95 (686p) ISBN 978-0-670-84498-2
When it appeared in 1992, the first volume of Cook's exhaustive, provocative biography of Eleanor Roosevelt radically redefined popular and critical perceptions of her subject's private life and elucidated the enormous role she played in the nation's
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Blanche Wiesen Cook. Viking, $40 (720p) ISBN 978-0-670-02395-0
In the third and concluding volume of this splendid biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Cook doesn’t have to make a case for her subject. Roosevelt’s life and character do that well enough on their own. If there’s a theme to the volume, it’s the way...
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Blanche Wiesen Cook, Author, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Preface by Penguin Books $20 (587p) ISBN 978-0-14-009460-2
This highly readable, well-researched work of feminist scholarship erases the image of the young Eleanor Roosevelt as a long-suffering, repressed wife and presents her as a strong, ever-evolving individual. Photos. (Mar.)
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When Barbara Jacobs, a Brandeis student, returned to campus after working with black civil rights groups in the South in 1960, she found a limerick in her university mailbox that expressed a common prejudice faced by Jewish women activists, which...
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