The New York Times Bestseller—“Superb…Lash has reached the highest level of the biographer’s art.” —Wall Street JournalJoseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and National Book Award-winning writer of Eleanor and Franklin, turns to the seventeen years Eleanor Roosevelt lived after FDR's death in 1945. Already a major figure in her own right, Roosevelt gained new stature with her work at the United Nations and her contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her activism on behalf of civil rights, as well as her humanitarian work, which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World. Lash has created an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person. 20 photographs

Product Description: In the words of Arthur Schlesinger, Eleanor & Franklin "is a beautiful book - beautiful in its scholarship, insight, objectivity and candor." Joseph Lash was secretary and confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt. His book was made into the PBS special of the same name.

Portrays the lives and relationships of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy from the 1860s and Anne Sullivan's childhood in an almshouse, through the decades of international fame, to Helen's death in 1968 (view table of contents)

Looks at the contributions of Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen, two members of Roosevelt's brain trust, to the New Deal

Product Description: Hardcover Octavo--the world of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Commemorating the centenary of her birth, this book captures the full span of Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable life and the fiber of her vibrant personality

Portrays the lives and relationships of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy from the 1860s and Anne Sullivan's childhood in an almshouse, through the decades of international fame, to Helen's death in 1968

Product Description: The intimate story of two women whose lives were bound together in a unique relationship marked by genius, dependence, and love. Lash traces Anne Sullivan's early years in a Massachusetts poorhouse, describes her meeting with Helen Keller in Alabama, and goes on to recount the joint events of their lives: Helen's childhood experiences, education at Radcliffe, and work in vaudeville, politics, and for the blind...read more

An account of the personalities and official practices of the two wartime leaders, of the relationship between them, and of the early events of World War II with which they contended and which shaped their partnership

Product Description: “Joe Lash’s introductory essay is beautifully written. I regard it as the best thing anyone has thus far done on Felix Frankfurter. For the legal profession it should be more interesting than a full biography.” ―Herbert Wechsler, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law School These diaries present fragments from a remarkable life: the immigrant boy who became a counselor to presidents and a shaping force in the evolution of our Constitution into a twentieth-century instrument...read more

The author combines research and excerpts from Hyde Park papers to illuminate the forty-five-year marriage of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Product Description: Book by Lash, Joseph P.