Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962  
by  

Blanche Wiesen Cook 

 Like many, I powered through the first two volumes of this series and  then paused for the third to be published. Cook is a wonderful writer  and her research on ER is definitive, extensive and perhaps most  importantly… was conducted with a woman’s curiosity.

However,  she toiled in some areas of ER’s life more than others. Perhaps there  was just more original source material for ER’s public life than her  private or family experiences. Bottom line, I completed the book feeling  inspired and connected to this magnificent woman. For students and  readers interested in America’s rise of feminism and activism or the  power of systemic racism pre-Civil Rights era, ER is an important woman  to understand and study.