Eleanor Roosevelt And Adlai Stevenson (the World Of The Roosevelts)

The First Book To Explore The Remarkable Political Alliance And Often Volatile Friendship Between Eleanor Roosevelt And Adlai Stevenson. By Richard Henry. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The United Nations, Crucible of the Alliance....Pages 3-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 The 1952 Campaign....Pages 33-44 On the World Stage....Pages 45-61 Race as an Issue....Pages 63-70 A Second Run for the Presidency....Pages 71-81 Civil Rights Again....Pages 83-93 Strains in the Alliance....Pages 95-102 Crosscurrents on Race....Pages 103-110 The 1956 Democratic National Convention....Pages 111-121 The Campaign Trail Again....Pages 123-131 Aftermath: Time for Reflection....Pages 133-142 The 1957 Civil Rights Bill....Pages 143-152 The Alliance Loosens....Pages 153-160 End of the Alliance....Pages 161-165 Transition....Pages 167-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Eleanor, Adlai, and J.F.K.....Pages 183-197 Coda....Pages 199-207 The Summing-Up....Pages 209-213 Back Matter....Pages 215-243 The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson - unexplored in depth by scholars until this study - was one of the last century s remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise, one in which the fulfillment of its "mission" was the betterment of the human condition. This belief was the foundation upon which their legislative initiatives were constructed. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service. "The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson--unexplored in depth by scholars until this study--was one of the last century's remarkable political alliances. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service"--Provided by publisher