“And with all she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization”: Close-reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s Autofabrication
Eleanor Roosevelt’s presumable modesty and shyness are among her most habitually applauded private characteristics, by academic historians and public educators alike (e.g. Binker and Farrell, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin), and yet she remains the most powerful American female political agent who...
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Main Author: | Sara Polak |
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Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2017-03-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11926 |
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