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Eleanor Roosevelt was known for boldly speaking out at a time when women were expected to be seen more than heard. She wrote a newspaper column, held press conferences, conducted radio broadcasts and ...

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt yielded great power as America's longest-serving first lady, working on social issues separate from the public policy of her husband. And in the years after her time in ...

It's hard to upstage a figure as sainted as Eleanor Roosevelt, but author Amy Bloom has found a voice if not as saintly then certainly as memorable: Eleanor's onetime lover and lifelong friend, the ...