Behind Eleanor Roosevelt’s celebrated image lies a story of nuance and contradiction. This episode explores how her beliefs, advocacy, and personal life often intersected in surprising ways.

In one 1933 letter, Roosevelt, mentioning her teenage son, writes: “Hick darling, Oh! how good it was to hear your voice, it was so inadequate to try & tell you what it meant, Jimmy was near & I ...

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was a diplomat, activist, and the longest serving First Lady of the United States during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms as president from ...

Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-53601-1 ...