According
to renowned Eleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook,
"Eleanor
Roosevelt never saw a wrong without trying to right it...She read her
mail avidly, and used her influence
to preserve democracy and fight for the people. Now, with this
timely, useful, galvanizing collection of blunt and earnest letters, so
can we."NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War
Professor
Arnold R. Alanen observes "As the first full-scale assessment
of
one of the nation's foremost planned communities, this book is unique.
More importantly, it examines the ideological changes that
have
occurred in Greenbelt up to the present - a very important issue in
light of its atypical origins as a New Deal community.
Combining
archival materials with contemporary interviews gives the subject a
sense of immediacy that many historical interpretations lack."Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal
