Contents

        PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

        Introduction

1.  Ancestry and Heritage

2.  Elliott and Anna

3.  Childhood of Tears and Loss

4.  Years of Dreams and Longing

5.  Allenswood and Marie Souvestre

6.  Coming Out and Courting

7.  Franklin and Me, and Sara Makes Three

8.  Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Wife

9.  The Roosevelts in Wilson’s Washington

10.  1919-20: Race Riots and Red Scare, Grief and Renewal

11.  The Campaign of 1920 and Louis Howe

12.  ER and the New Women of the 1920s: Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, First Feminist Friends

13.  Convalescence, Marital Unity, and Separate Spheres: Polio, Val-Kill, and Warm Springs

14.  ER, Political Boss

15.  New York’s First Lady, Part-Time

16.  Teaching and Todhunter

17.  ER at Forty-five

18.  Earl Miller: A Champion of Her Own

19.  Assignment ER: Lorena Hickok and the 1932 Campaign

20.  The First Lady’s First Friend

        PHOTOGRAPHS

        NOTES

        SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

        INDEX