Dozens of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt, but her own
writings are largely confined to the Roosevelt archives in Hyde Park.
Courage in a Dangerous World allows her own voice again to be heard.
Noted Eleanor Roosevelt scholar Allida M. Black has gathered more than
two hundred columns, articles, essays, and speeches culled from archives
whose pages number in the millions, tracing her development from
timorous columnist to one of liberalism's most outspoken leaders.
From "My Day" newspaper columns about Marian Anderson and excerpts from
Moral Basis of Democracy and This Troubled World to speeches and
articles on the Holocaust and McCarthyism, this anthology provides
readers with the tools to reconstruct the politics of a woman who
redefined American liberalism and democratic reform. Arranged
chronologically and by topic, the volume covers the New Deal years, the
White House years, World War II at home and abroad, the United Nations
and human rights, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the
resurgence of feminism, and much more. In addition, the collection
features excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt's correspondence with Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Adlai Stevenson, J. Edgar Hoover,
John F. Kennedy, and ordinary Americans.
The volume features a collection of 30 rare photographs. A comprehensive
bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt's articles serves as a valuable
resource, providing a link to the issues she held dear, many of which
are still hotly debated today.
