Eleanor Roosevelt: The People's First Lady

Few women personified the changing lives of American women in the twentieth century more than Eleanor Roosevelt. Brought up with all the privileges of a woman of her class, she was raised under the watchful tutelage of her endlessly energetic and domineering uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, until she married Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was himself bent on occupying the White House. Never very far from wealth and power, she evolved from a Victorian debutante to the world’s most respected advocate of human rights. Here’s her surprising and inspiring story.