Roosevelt, Eleanor

In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Anne was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annexe, and over the next two years she vividly describes in her diary the frustrations of living in such confined quarter... More

Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit.... More

She championed the cause of basic human rights for all and saw the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through in 1948.... More

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt not only influenced the policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but served the nation in her own right as she delivered the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the United Nations. Photos.Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World Meet Eleanor Roose... More

Through his radio fireside chats, Roosevelt changed the way presidents interacted with his fellow Americans. He also led the country out of the Great Depression and through World War II, despite his own physical struggles. Photos.Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Leader in Troubled Times Through his fireside... More

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and... More

Eleanor Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family but had a difficult early life. Both her parents died before she was ten. She was a painfully shy child and felt unattractive and awkward as a young woman. But Eleanor overcame tragedy and personal insecurity to become America's most popular First Lad... More

This book remains the single most poignant true-life story to emerge from the Second World War.Paperback... More

About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than statist... More

The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American political family of the twentieth century. As Pulitzer Pri... More