Letters to Eleanor: Voices of the Great Depression

by Paul Bernstein M.D.

Overview

Letters to Eleanor: Voices of the Great Depression examines how the flood of letters from ordinary Americans to the First Lady established a bond of hope and trust. Through this paper trail, Eleanor Roosevelt was able to help many petitioners find jobs, food, housing, and clothes. To others she offered the encouragement and support many need in the bleak Thirties. Through it all Eleanor Roosevelt exhibited a tradionalist social outlook by her support of homemakers and opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. But as the New Deal matured, she became an ardent reformer who fought for an anti-lynching law and job opportunity for women in the federal service. Buy beneath her incessant activity to help others there was an inner Eleanor who constantly sought emotional support from female colleagues or her distant correspondents, a support she did not receive form FDR or her family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781418474812
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	09/30/2004
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Dr. Bernstein received his doctorate in History from the University of Pennsylvania.  He has published books in both American and European history including American Work Values through the State University of New York Press.  A two volume set on the History of Civilization was published with co-author Robert Green.  Bernstein has reviewed books for Harvard University Press and Polity Press (UK).  He was also awarded research grants by American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia and the Swedish Institute.

Bernstein has also served as Dean of Liberal Arts and Dean of Graduate Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.