Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THIS I REMEMBER (387 pp.)-Eleanor Roosevelt-Harper...
...There are some things I know that I feel sure nobody else can know," says Eleanor Roosevelt in casual explanation of why she wrote the second volume of her autobiography. For more than four years, while Franklin Roosevelt's housekeepers and bodyguards, speechwriters and Cabinet members have been carrying their manuscripts to the publishers, his widow has said little about him beyond some references in her syndicated newspaper column. In This-I Remember, she tells her story of the Roosevelts' private life in the White House...
...Author Roosevelt's memoir has little of the high historic excitement of Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins and none of the hero-worshiping quality of Grace Tully's F.D.R., My Boss; she just runs along easily as though she were showing the family album to some old friends. Yet every few pages she comes to a striking, familiar snapshot of the great ones among whom she and her husband moved. Random shots...
...Time for Advice. Her pictures of the private life of the Roosevelts are among the best in the area of "things nobody else can know." Every morning when she was home, Mrs. Roosevelt called on the President in his room after breakfast ; if he was too busy reading the newspapers she left without disturbing...
Eleanor herself soon became chief executive in family matters. Her biggest problem, as she tells it, was her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt. She snaps with wifely irritation: "I doubt if as long as she lived she ever let [Franklin] leave the house without inquiring whether he was dressed warmly enough . . . She never accepted the fact of his independence and continued to the last to try to guide his life...