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Title: An Untold Story : The Roosevelts of Hyde Park by Elliott Roosevelt, James Brough ISBN: 0-399-11127-1 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1973 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: "What has happened to us in this country?" Eleanor Roosevelt
Comment: My mother always gives me good books to read.
I read this weathered copy a few years back which spurred me to go on a Roosevelt binge; I visited Campobello, the Roosevelt's summer home, read Freedman's biographies on both Eleanor and Franklin, and bought a PBS documentary on Eleanor at the house. This book is written by their son Elliot and gives a most candid, unglamorous view of their private and public lives. Full of humor and tragedy too told from a growing boy's perspective. On the jacket of my book, Elliot writes "Some people may feel that I have revealed too much of their inner lives...I feel that the truth is better told plainly than alluded to in veiled sentences...I have written this contribution...knowing that they would agree that history should know the true trials and tribulations to which they were submitted."
Campobello was the first international park in the world and is the only one in the world to be owned, operated, staffed by two countries, Canada and the U.S. In May of 1963, JFK, along with the Canadian prime minister, Lester Pearson, proposed that Campobello be made a national park within a year after Eleanor died. What impressed me about Campobello was the simplicity of the furnishings there, how small their beds were, (both Eleanor and Franklin were over 6 feet tall), and every one of the bedrooms contained a small writing desk.
Of course, the Roosevelt's homestead was really at Hyde Park in Dutchess county NY; the family stayed there most of the year except when FDR became Governor of NY or President of the U.S. (Interestingly, the epicenter of Alexander Hamilton's Reynold's affair fiasco and stomping gounds of Burr were in this county; please see Forrest McDonald's biography.)
I gathered the title for this review from Russell Freedman's biography on Eleanor. Actually Eleanor wrote these words in her newspaper column 'My Day' in 1939. The issue at stake was immigration law regulating quotas of immigrants to be admitted from various countries; Eleanor supported a bill to allow 10,000 jewish children a year for two years to immigrate. She wrote "What is happening to us in this country? If we study our own history we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunates from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profitted a thousandfold by what they have brought us." The bill was withdrawn. In 1944, Freedman writes in his Franklin biography, that Roosevelt "was shocked into action" created the War Refugee Board after he got a report from Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury Department. Morgenthau stated that the State Department had "failed to use the Governmental machinery ...to rescue Jews from Hitler, but have even gone so far as to use this Governmental machinery to prevent the rescue of these Jews."!!!
I do recommend Freedman's biographies too; they're small and for the general lay reader like myself, great primers before diving into more in depth, political books about their lives and policies.
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Title: Hyde Park Murder/09486 by Elliot Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt ISBN: 0312401604 Publisher: Bookthrift Co Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $1.98 |
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Title: Murder at Hobcaw Barony (An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery) by Elliott Roosevelt ISBN: 0312552912 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $2.98 |
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Title: Murder in the Executive Mansion : The King And Queen of England Are Coming to the White House...And so is the Killer by Elliott Roosevelt ISBN: 0312955782 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Murder in the Map Room (An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery) by Elliott Roosevelt ISBN: 0312967640 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Murder In Georgetown : An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery by Elliott Roosevelt ISBN: 0312973217 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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