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My Day

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so completely. . . . She's perfect for us as we enter the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt is a loud and profound voice for people who want to change the world." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook

Named "Woman of the Century" in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column "My Day" for over a quarter of that century from 1936 to 1962. This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume the most memorable of those columns written with singular wit elegance compassion and insight -- everything from her personal perspectives on the New Deal and World War II to the painstaking diplomacy required of her as chair of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights after the war to the joys of gardening at her beloved Hyde Park home. To quote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "What a remarkable woman she was! These sprightly and touching selections from Eleanor Roosevelt's famous column evoke an extraordinary personality."

"My Day reminds us how great a woman she was." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution>

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was an American politician diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945. She made Gallup's list of "People that Americans Most Widely Admired in the 20th Century" and Time's "The 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century."

Jill Lepore is the Kemper Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Her books include The Name of War (1998) which won the Bancroft Prize; New York Burning (2005) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history; The Story of America (2012) which was short-listed for the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay; Book of Ages (2013) a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014). Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. In 2012 she was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching.