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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948 Volume 1
Contributor(s): Roosevelt, Eleanor (Author), Black, Allida (Editor)
ISBN: 0813929245     ISBN-13: 9780813929248
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
OUR PRICE:   $98.51  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2010
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Annotation: Foreword by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chronicling her development as diplomat, politician and journalist in the years 1945 to 1948, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project: The Human Rights Years is filled with original writings and speeches that have been thoughtfully annotated and made easily accessible through a comprehensive index. Enhanced with more than 130 illustrations and a chronology, Roosevelt's thoughts and experiences are deliberately connected to the wider cultural, political and historical context. This unique collection was developed by The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project as the first of a five volume set covering the years 1945 through 1962. In total, this definitive documentary edition of Roosevelt's political writings will be comprised of about 70 percent previously unpublished material that offers key, inside perspective of the United Nations, Cold War politics and the New Frontier.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: 973.917
LCCN: 2009023267
Series: Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
Physical Information: 2" H x 7" W x 10" (4.00 lbs) 1200 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

"Eleanor Roosevelt once asked, 'Where do human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.' As the Chair of the United Nations commission drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt worked tirelessly from 1946 to 1948.... Through Volume 1 of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, we honor her work, her legacy, her timeless values and ideals, and her commitment to imagining a better future for all people. As you read through this volume, I hope her words will be a call to action."--from the foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Eleanor Roosevelt walked out of the White House more than the president's widow. As a nationally syndicated columnist, popular lecturer, author, party leader, and social activist, Roosevelt assured her friends that "my voice will not be silent." Vowing not to be a "workless worker in a world of work," Roosevelt dedicated her unstinting energy to "winning the peace."

The 410 documents in The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948, collected from 263 archives in 50 states and 9 nations, chronicle not only Roosevelt's impact on American politics and the United Nations, but also the serious treatment she received from those in power. They disclose the inner workings of Truman's first administration, the United Nations, and the major social and political movements of the postwar world. They also reveal the intense struggles Roosevelt's correspondents and advisors had confronting a war-scarred world, the conflicting advice they gave her, and the material Roosevelt reviewed and the people she consulted while determining her own course of action.

Using a wide variety of material--letters, speeches, columns, debates, committee transcripts, telegrams, and diary entries--this first of five volumes presents a representative selection of the actions Eleanor Roosevelt took to define, implement, and promote human rights and the impact her work had at home and abroad. Readers may disagree over various decisions she made, language that she used, or the priorities she established. Yet her influence is unquestioned.