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Resources on Eleanor Roosevelt

Resources: Eleanor Roosevelt


Books
Black, Allida M (Ed) Courage in a Dangerous World – Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt, New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Glendon, Mary Ann A World Made New – Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York:  Random House, 2001.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1994.
Lash, Joseph P.  Eleanor: The Years Alone, New York: WW Norton & Co. 1972.
Roosevelt,  Anna Eleanor  The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, New York: Da Capo Press Edition, 1992.

Websites

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project headed by GWU historian Allida Black with Eleanor’s political writings, TV appearances, extensive biographies and resources. 

White House history: Short biography and background information about Eleanor as First Lady.  

FDR Library

 
Videos
Eleanor Roosevelt American Experience DVD, Boston WGBH, and Ambrica productions 1999 Home Videos, 1981

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story History in Motion, 1965.  Keno on Video . Updated in 2004 with an introduction by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then First Lady.

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