The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Audiobook

Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.

The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War.

A champion of the downtrodden, Eleanor drew on her experience and used her role as First Lady to help those in need. Intimately involved in her husband’s political life, from the governorship of New York to the White House, Eleanor eventually became a powerful force of her own, heading women’s organizations and youth movements, and battling for consumer rights, civil rights, and improved housing. In the years after FDR’s death she became a U.N. Delegate, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a newspaper columnist, Democratic party activist, world-traveler, and diplomat devoted to the ideas of liberty and human rights.

This single volume biography brings her to life through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the postwar years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad.

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“Eleanor Roosevelt’s life—from herbirth in 1884 to her death in 1962—is read in the steady voice of TaviaGilbert. Being the niece of Theodore Roosevelt and fifth cousin of her husband,Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor was in the unique position to experiencelife from inside the New York governor’s house and the White House over fivedecades, first under her uncle’s administrations and then her husband’s.Gilbert performs this autobiography crisply and with little emotion. AsRoosevelt, Gilbert tells of life as a teacher; homemaker; mother to sixchildren, five of whom survived; first lady; and humanitarian during and afterFDR’s death. Gilbert’s performance lacks Roosevelt’s cultured tones.Surprisingly, there are no clips of Roosevelt’s own voice; nevertheless, thisaudiobook performance will engage listeners from the first minutes to the last.”

— AudioFile