'Eleanor: The Years Alone' is a sequel to Lash's previous book, 'Franklin and Eleanor.' It is scholarly and well-researched, yet overall the reader cannot see the forest for the trees. Roosevelt liked to write the way some presidents like to tweet, and Lash tries to quote her writings at every opportunity. Lash and his wife were close personal friends of Eleanor Roosevelt, and he had access to her mountain of correspondence. She was later awarded a nobel peace prize for her remarkable work. With great strength and courage she was able to achieve more than any other person of her time.

So many contributions by a remarkable woman both domestically and internationally. The UN gave it recognition status in 1949 a move that has angered the Arabs to this date. Her sentiments did not seat well with President Truman who in order to outdo the Russians acknowledged Israel as a state.

She favored the partition of palestine into two with the Jews on the one side and the Palestinians on the other. However, she was opposed to a Jewish state at the time. The move was not done unilaterally but through the United Nations and with consultations with the Arab Authorities. She also assisted in the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Elearnor together with representatives from other countries were able to come up with a document that has been accepted by every state in the world. Her gruelling encounter and exchanges with her Russian counterparts eventually paid off. She fought for a legislation at the international level that ensures and protects individuals around the world. It was important for the US to match them in each anf every way. She saw the Russians as both 'insecure' and 'tenacious'. She was endowed with great knowledge of human nature and relations which she encouraged the ruling class of the time to inculcate. She had come to learn and understand the Russian psychology. The prevention of war with the Russians was her mantra. She believed that the only way the US could win the cold war was by ENDING IT. She believed that a stronger UN can be an effective instrument for peace in the world. In her own words, she encouraged her country to make it (the United Nations) a cornerstone of its foreign policy. After the brutal war with Germany in what is commonly known as World War II, she became a strong proponent for a United Nations. Rosevelt was best known for her struggle to promote and achieve peace in the world. Her political prowess was eveident in the highest organisation in the world which she helped form, the United Nations.Ī Peace Ambassador. Though her husband's death was hard on her, it never slowed her momentum on her impact both in domestic politic politics and at the international level. Rosevelt was the wife to Franklin Delano Rosevelt, a high ranking former president who is currently deceased. Elearnor: The years alone is an auto-biography about Eleanor Rosevelt written by Joseph P.

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