She Was One of Us : : Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker / / Brigid O'Farrell.

Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was One of Us tells for the first time the story o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2011
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 31 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations Used in Text
  • Prologue
  • 1. Why Women Should Join Unions
  • 2. Here Comes Mrs. Roosevelt
  • 3. Practicing What You Preach
  • 4. In Her Own Way
  • 5. An Essential Element of Freedom
  • 6. Pointing the Way
  • 7. We Have Something to Offer
  • 8. A Revolutionary Period
  • Epilogue
  • Source Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Note on Sources and Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index