Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States, from March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945; as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Because her husband was the longest-serving president, Eleanor is the longest-serving First Lady.

Books about Eleanor Roosevelt

• Beasley, Maurine Hoffman. Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady (University Press of Kansas, 2010) online.

• Beasley, M. H. (1987). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

• Beauchamp, Angela S. (2024). Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen: The First Lady's Appearances in Film and Television 1932-1962. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co.

• Bell-Scott, P. (2016). The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Berger, J. (1981). A New Deal for the World: Eleanor Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Black, A. M. (1996). Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Cook, B. W. (1993). Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: The Early Years, 1884-1933. London: Bloomsbury.
• Cook, B. W. (2000). Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two: The Defining Years, 1933-1938. London: Bloomsbury.
• Cook, B. W. (2016). Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Three: The War Years and After, 1939-1962. London: Bloomsbury.
• Glendon, M. A. (2001). A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House.
• Golay, M. (2016). America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Goodwin, D. K. (2013). No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Hareven, T. K. (1975). Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience. New York: Da Capo Press.
• Harris, C. M. (2007). Eleanor Roosevelt. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
• Kearney, R. (1968). Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of a Reformer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Lash, J. P. (1982). Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and her Friends. New York: Doubleday.
• Lash, J. P. (1971). '. New York: W. W. Norton.
• Lash, J. P. (1972). '. New York: W. W. Norton.
• Lightman, M., & Hoff, J. (1984). Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Quinn, Susan. Eleanor and Hick: The love affair that shaped a first lady (Penguin, 2017) online, with Lorena Hickock.

• Youngs, J. W. T. (2006). Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life. New York: Pearson/Longman.

Journal articles about Eleanor Roosevelt

• Abramowitz, M. (1984). Eleanor Roosevelt and the National Youth Administration 1935-1943: An Extension of the Presidency. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 14(4), pp. 569–580.
• Atwell, M. (1979). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Cold War Consensus. Diplomatic History, 3(1), pp. 99–113.
• Beasley, M. (1986). Eleanor Roosevelt's Vision of Journalism: A Communications Medium for Women. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 16(1), pp. 66–75.
• Beauchamp, Angela S. (2020). I Will Not Be Your Little China Doll: Representations of Eleanor Roosevelt in Film and Television. The Journal of American Popular Culture, Spring 2020.19(1).
• Black, A. (1990). Championing a Champion: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Marian Anderson "Freedom Concert". Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 719–736.
• Black, A. (1999). Struggling with Icons: Memorializing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. The Public Historian, 21(1), pp. 63–72.
• Black, A. (2008). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. OAH Magazine of History, 22(2), pp. 34–37.
• Blair, D. (2001). No Ordinary Time: Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 4(2), pp. 203–222.
• Burke, F. (1984). Eleanor Roosevelt, October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962-She Made a Difference. Public Administration Review, 44(5), pp. 365–372.
• Cook, B. (2000). Woman of the Century: Eleanor Roosevelt's Biographer Assesses the Legacy of a First Lady Who Sought Justice for All. The Women's Review of Books, 17(10/11), pp. 22–23.
• Erikson, J. (1964). Nothing to Fear: Notes on the Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Daedalus, 93(2), pp. 781–801.
• Fogel, D. (1974). Eleanor Roosevelt Writes From European Tour, 1918. The Georgia Review, 28(4), pp. 703–704.
• Gilbert, S., & Shollenberger, K. (2001). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights: A Simulation Activity. OAH Magazine of History, 15(3), pp. 35–36.
• Graham, H. (1987). The Paradox of Eleanor Roosevelt: Alcoholism's Child. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 63(2), pp. 210–230.
• Grant, P. (1979). Catholic Congressmen, Cardinal Spellman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the 1949-1950 Federal Aid to Education Controversy. Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 90(1/4), pp. 3–13.
• Hobbins, A. (1998). Eleanor Roosevelt, John Humphrey: And Canadian Opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Looking Back on the 50th Annivesary of UNDHR. International Journal, 53(2), pp. 325–342.
• Miller, K. (1999). A Volume Of Friendship: The Correspondence of Isabella Greenway and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1904-1953. The Journal of Arizona History, 40(2), pp. 121–156.
• Patton, T. (2006). "What Of Her?" Eleanor Roosevelt and Camp Tera. New York History, 87(2), 228–247.
• Penkower, M. (1987). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Plight of World Jewry. Jewish Social Studies, 49(2), pp. 125–136.
• Pfeffer, P. (1996). Eleanor Roosevelt and the National and World Woman's Parties. The Historian, 59(1), pp. 39–57.
• Roemer, K. (2005). The Multi-Missionary Eleanor Roosevelt of American Indian Literatures. Studies in American Indian Literatures, 17(2), pp. 101–105.
• Seeber, F. (1990). Eleanor Roosevelt and Women in the New Deal: A Network of Friends. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 707–717.
• Urdang, I. (2008). Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: Human Rights and the Creation of the United Nations. OAH Magazine of History, 22(2), pp. 28–31.
• Watson, Robert P. (1997) "The first lady reconsidered: Presidential partner and political institution." Presidential Studies Quarterly 27 (1997): 805+ online
• Winfield, B. (1988). "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's White House Legacy: The Public First Lady". Presidential Studies Quarterly, 18(2), pp. 331–345. online

• Winfield, B. (1990). The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 699–706.
• The First Eleanor Roosevelt International Caucus of Women Political Leaders. (1988). Signs, 13(2), pp. 372–373.

Primary sources written by Eleanor Roosevelt

• 1933 – It's Up to the Women. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company
• 1935 – A Trip to Washington With Bobby And Betty. New York: Dodge
• 1937 – This is my story. New York: Bantam Books. First part autobiography
• 1940 – Christmas. A Story. New York: Knopf
• 1949 – This I Remember, New York: Harper & Bros. Second part autobiography
• 1953 – UN: today and tomorrow. New York: Harper & Brothers. Co-author: William DeWitt
• 1953 – India and the awakening East. New York: Harper & Brothers
• 1958 – On My Own, New York: Harper & Bros. Third part autobiography
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt's Book of Common Sense Etiquette. New York: The Macmillan Company
• 1963 – Tomorrow is now. New York: Harper & Row. Published posthumously
• Knepper, C. D. (2004). Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War. New York: Carroll & Graf.
• Roosevelt, E., & Beasley, M. (1983). The White House Press Conference of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Garland.
• Roosevelt, E., & Black, A. M. (2007). The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 19451948. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
• Roosevelt, E., & Black, A. M. (2012). The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Vol. 2: The Human Rights Years, 19491952. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
• Black, A. M. (2000). Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Roosevelt, E., & Black, A. M. (2007). The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Roosevelt, E., & Roosevelt, I. N. (2014). The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Harper Perennial.

See also

• Bibliography of United States presidential spouses and first ladies

Notes

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