Eleanor Roosevelt: A Late Bloomer, a Great Leader

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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Late Bloomer, a Great Leader: Abstract

Coming from a wealthy family on the East Coast of the United States, niece of a President, wife of a President, woman with, in many respects, an avant-garde spirit, a model for many, Eleanor Roosevelt had all the qualities of a fairy-tale’s heroine.

Her life was however nothing of the sort. Unloved by her mother, with little support from her father, orphaned at 10, mistreated by her mother-in-law, deceived by her husband; she was a woman of low self-esteem, who was prone to depression. And yet, her childhood and young adult years shaped her into an independent person, who existed on her own, even as a First Lady, and who occupied a special place among the women (and men) of the twentieth century who in many ways changed our world.

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