“First Lady But Second Fiddle” or the rise and rejection of the political couple in the White House: 1933-today. by Pierre-Marie Loizeau

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First Female Travel Journalist Meets First Lady: Mary Pos and Eleanor Roosevelt Speak on Women’s Roles and Intercultural Understanding by Babs Boter

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Introduction: North American Women in Politics and International Relations by Isabelle Vagnoux

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Reframing Eleanor Roosevelt’s Influence in the 1930s Anti-Lynching Movement around a ‘New Philosophy of Government’ by Melissa Cooper

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A Trustworthy Collaboration: Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham’s Pioneering of American Cultural Diplomacy by Camelia Lenart

“…Focusing on the collaboration between the First Lady and the modern dancer Martha Graham, it also proves that their partnership and its valuable and long lasting outcomes qualify them as pioneers of American cultural diplomacy. …”
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Radio Broadcasts in France by Anya Luscombe

“…Roosevelt’s broadcasts) a great deal of letters from the public: usually either extremely favorable or vehemently opposed to the views she expressed. The former First Lady saw the role of the VOA as fundamental to “spread[ing] the understanding of the value of our way of life and of our type of government.”  …”
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Nonsense as Autobiography: The Children’s Poems and Family Secrets of Laura E. Richards by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…Richards’s (1850-1943), the first lady of American nonsense poetry, was among the few nineteenth-century professional women writers who composed literary autobiographies, and the only one who wrote two, one for adult readers and one for children. …”
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“And with all she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization”: Close-reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s Autofabrication by Sara Polak

“…I argue that what Roosevelt herself once termed “casual unawareness of her value to society” was crucial in the construction of a feminine power position that enabled her to wield unusual influence, both as first lady and as a public intellectual and diplomat. …”
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