This Troubled World

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote these essays in the late 1930s as headlines grew more alarming by the day - and the core argument still reads as immediate. Opening with a frank admission that the morning papers had become almost intolerable, Roosevelt moves quickly from diagnosis to prescription.

She examines how nations slide from suspicion into armed confrontation, then lays out concrete proposals: binding international arbitration, stronger multilateral institutions, and a civic ethic that treat...