The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR’s death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962.

She lives in New York City with her partner of 51 years, playwright, librettist, activist Clare Coss.Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. Creator of Peace and Conflict Studies, Elise Boulding, called the Garland Library “the publishing venture of the century.”īlanche Wiesen Cook, graduated from Hunter College, and received her Ph.D. She was also the co-founder and officer of the Conference on Peace Research in History (CPRH) and senior editor of the Garland Library on War and Peace, a 328 volume reprint collection, each with new introductions (1971). Professor Cook is the former Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association and was Vice-President and Chair of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability (FOIA,Inc.) She was also Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which was actively committed to maintaining the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act. She is featured in Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Roosevelts.

Professor Cook has appeared frequently on television, on such programs as The Today Show, Good Morning America, C-Span’s Booknotes, and MacNeil/Lehrer, where she participated in the joint PBS-NBC coverage of the 1992 Democratic National Convention. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, originally called Activists and Agitators, and later, Women and the World in the 1980s. Her book Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution, reprinted in 2020 by Oxford University Press, was declared by Joseph Lash “a book that should stay in print forever.” The Declassified Eisenhower, was a New York Times Book Review notable book of 1981, published in Penguin paperback 1984. Professor Cook has edited and contributed to many anthologies.

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