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Abelow, Miriam, 437, 440
Adams, Abigail, 354–55
Adams, Catherine, 137
Adams, Charles Francis, 137
Adams, Henry, 72, 86, 206–7, 235, 246–247
Adams, John, 354–55
Adams, Marian Sturgis Hooper “Clover,” 235–36, 245–48
Addams, Jane, 8–9, 134, 195, 196, 204, 212–13, 239–40, 294, 356–58
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, 246
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 44
Agriculture Committee, N.Y. Senate, 194
Akerson, George, 469
Alabama, 29
Algonac, 25, 144
Allenswood, 101–24, 132, 154, 170, 173, 176, 296, 312, 397–99
Alpha Delta Phi, 149
Alsop, Corinne Robinson (cousin), 112–13, 165
on ER, 114, 116, 154
Alsop, Joseph, 148, 154
Altrowitz, Abe, 485–86, 487 “Amateur Comedy Club,” 47
American Association for the United Nations, 18
American Legion, 280–81
American Union Against Militarism, 212, 458
Anderson, Mary, 258
Andromaque (Racine), 118
Annals of the American Academy, The, 17
anti-Catholicism, 190, 347, 371, 374, 390
anti-Semitism, 6, 7, 114, 390, 416–17
Anti-Suffrage League, 114n Arnold, Ervin, 269, 271
Art Students’ League, 129
Asquith, Herbert, 304
Assembly Ball, 131
Associated Press (AP), 280, 386, 450, 451, 454, 458–59, 460–62, 473, 487–88, 490, 496
Association to Promote Proper Housing for Girls, Inc., 422
Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 22–23, 130, 147
Astor, Nancy, 425, 426
Atlanta Journal, 28n, 438
Babies—Just Babies, 473
Baker, Bobby, 452
Baker, Newton D., 254, 452
Baker, Ray Stannard (David Grayson), 337
Baldwin, Roger, 212
Baltimore Sun, 286
Bank of New York, 25
Barnard College, 134, 156, 293
Barney, Laura, 103
Barney, Natalie, 103
Baruch, Bernard, 7, 19, 222–23, 229, 390, 455, 457
Battle Creek Journal, 484
Beal, Thomas, 166 Bedouin, 51–52
Beebe, Katherine, 459
Bell, Vanessa, 103
Bellinger, Ruth, 446
Belmont, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, 229n, 276, 294
Bennett, Marjorie, see Vaughn, Marjorie Bennett
Bens, Mrs. Samuel, 363
Berger, Victor L., 241–42
Berkman, Alexander, 240–41
Berle, Adolf A., 456
Bethune, Mary McCleod, 7
Bibesco, Elizabeth Asquith, 304–5
Bibesco, Prince Antoine, 304
Biddle, Nicholas, 131, 132n, 152, 153, 166
Biles, Eleanor Mann, 65n
Birth Control League, 12
Black, Van Lear, 286–87, 306–8
Bleak House (Dickens), 93
Bloomsbury, 9
Boer War, 114
Boettiger, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (daughter), 8, 178, 229, 363, 376, 416–17, 451, 464, 465
childhood and adolescence of, 181, 188, 226, 299–301, 311–13, 327–28
on ER, 13, 299–300, 327–28
ER’s relationship with, 299–300, 311–313, 327–28, 332, 407
marriages of, see Boettiger, John R.; Dall, Curtis
social debut of, 299–300, 313
Boettiger, John R., 459, 460
Bok, Edward, 342, 344–46
Bok Peace Award, 342–46 “Book of Three Virtues” (Pisan), 113
Borah, William E., 221, 260, 2:61
Boy Scouts of Greater New York, 317
Bradley, Charles, 166
Bradwell v. Illinois, 355
Brahms, Johannes, 486
Brain Trust, 456, 457
Brandeis University, 19
Bright’s disease, 45, 205
Britannic, 48
Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey, 349
Brown, Elliott, 325
Brown, Lathrop, 150, 166, 169, 208
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 140–41, 154
Browning, Robert, 49, 202
Bryan, William Jennings, 203–4, 205, 211, 213, 347
Buckley School, 329
Buford, 240–41
Bullitt, William, 437–38
Bull Moose movement, 195–97
Bulloch, Anna, see Gracie, Anna Bulloch “Annie”
Bulloch, Daniel Stewart Elliott, 2
Bulloch, Ella, 44
Bulloch, Irvine, 29, 44
Bulloch, James, 29, 31, 33
Bulloch, Martha Stewart Elliott (great-grandmother), 28–29
Bulloch Hall, 27–28
Burden, Gwendolyn, 96, 134
Bureau of Women’s Activities of the Democratic National Committee, 366
Burkinshaw, Hilda “Burky,” 108, 116
Bussy, Dorothy Strachey, 103–4, 105–6, 110, 116–20
Bussy, Simon, 103
Byrd, Harry, 457
Cadden, Joseph, 7
Cambridge University, 104
Cameron, Elizabeth, 235, 246, 247n
Cameron, William Don, 246
Campobello Island, 160, 181, 182–83, 185, 187, 198, 202, 216–17, 305–310, 328
Candida (Shaw), 158–59
Caraway, Thaddeus, 344–45
Carillo, 197–98
Carnegie, Hattie, 422
Carow, Edith, see Roosevelt, Edith Carow
Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, 184
Cary, Howard, 152–53
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 7, 9, 195, 239–240, 243, 275–76, 291–92, 339, 364
Celtic, 48
Chamberlain, Beatrice, 124
Chamberlain, Joseph, 103
Chaney, Mayris “Tiny,” 430, 433–34
Chapin, Bill, 461, 462
Chateau Suresnes, 65–68, 72–73
Cherokee Indians, 27
Chevy Chase Club, 208, 216, 255
Chicago Tribune, 220, 459
Child, Julia, 438
Child Labor Amendment, 362
Children’s Aid Society, 27, 136
Children’s Bureau, 243, 290, 362
Choate, Joseph, 151
Christian Woman’s Protest Against the Atrocities Suffered by Jews in Hitler’s Germany, 7
City, State and Nation, 296
“City of Women, The” (Pisan), 113
Civil War, U.S., 22, 28–30, 215, 246, 355
Cleveland, Grover, 185
Cohn, Fannia, 258
Cold War, 17–18
College Settlement, 135, 137, 138, 468
Collier, Katharine Delano Robbins Price “Aunt Kassie,” 139, 152, 168, 262, 310, 476, 477, 490
Colonial Dames, 225
Columbia University, 26, 164, 169
Committee on Safety for New York City, 194
“Common Sense Versus Party Regularity” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 303–4
concentration camps, 17
Congress, U.S., 208, 214, 223, 259, 260, 355–56, 368
Congressional Record, 292
Congress of States Societies, 423
Connell, Richard, 185–86
Constant Nymph, The (Kennedy), 318
constitutional amendments:
Fourteenth, 355, 374–75
Fifteenth, 355, 374–75
Seventeenth, 190
Eighteenth, 374
Nineteenth, 376
proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 354–60
Consumers’ League, 135–36, 194, 321, 359
Cook, Nancy, 7, 318–23, 334, 339, 346, 351, 393, 489
ER and, 13, 15, 296, 318–20, 322–23, 325–28, 336–37, 354, 383–84, 394, 397–99, 410, 411–15, 420, 434, 446, 464–65, 469
Coolidge, Calvin, 242, 277, 286, 303, 351, 354, 365, 374
Cornell University, 300–301, 330
Counterfeits, The (Strachey), 104
Countryman’s Year, The (Grayson), 337
Cowles, Anna Roosevelt “Bamie” “Bye” (aunt), 27–30, 41, 75, 77, 91, 92, 100–101, 106, 122, 123, 173, 178, 248
Anna Hall Roosevelt and, 59, 62, 65–68
ER and, 37, 137–38, 163, 164, 189, 205, 206–7, 306, 354
family correspondence of, 48, 49–50, 53, 55, 56–57, 59–62, 64–65, 72, 73, 86, 88–89
political and social influence of, 36–37, 137–38
Cowles, Margaret Krech, 304
Cowles, William Sheffield, Jr., 149, 304
Cowles, William Sheffield “Will,” 101, 137, 163, 164
Cox, James M., 272, 277–78, 280
Crane, Charles R., 290
Cutting, Helen, 96, 165
Daily Mail (London), 106
Dall, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, see Boettiger, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall
Dall, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt “Sisty” (granddaughter), 414
Dall, Curtis, 330, 395, 416, 459
Dana, Richard Henry, 314
Daniels, Addie Bagley, 205, 206, 215
Daniels, Josephus, 203–4, 212–13, 228, 253, 254, 261, 270–73, 279
FDR and, 198, 200, 205–6, 209–10, 213, 232, 265–67, 272–73, 302, 305, 353
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 243
Daughters of the Confederacy, 225
Davie, May Ladenburg, 222–23
Davie, Preston, 222
Davis, John W., 351
Davis, Kenneth, 446
Davis, Livingston “Livy,” 216, 218, 266, 315–16
Debs, Eugene V., 239–40, 242
Declaration of Human Rights, 17, 18
Declaration of Independence, 17–18, 22
Delano, Catherine Lyman, 144
Delano, Ellen, 165
Delano, Frederic, 152, 219, 309–10
Delano, Laura, 25
Delano, Lyman, 152, 153, 166
Delano, Warren, Jr., 143–44, 153
Delano, Warren, Sr., 144
Delano, Warren, III, 152
Democratic National Committee, 349–350
Democratic National Conventions:
of 1912, 198
of 1920, 271–72
of 1924, 350–51
of 1932, 448–53
Democratic Party:
ER and, 5, 274, 338–80
FDR and, 184–85, 272–86, 445–72
Denby, Edwin, 353
Department of Correction, N.Y., 447
Department of Public Works, N.Y., 464
Depression, Great, 405–6, 415–16, 418–23, 442, 489, 493–94, 498
de Rham, Frances Dana, 314–15
de Rham, Henry, 314–15
de Wolfe, Elsie, 47
Dewson, Mary “Molly,” 296, 328, 339, 373, 410, 411
Diaries of Boyhood and Youth (Theodore Roosevelt), 31
Dickens, Charles, 32, 58, 93, 402
Dickerman, Marion, 15, 318–24, 334, 339, 351, 363, 372–73, 489
ER and, 7, 13, 296, 318–20, 322–23, 325–27, 329, 333, 336–37, 354, 383, 397–99, 410, 411–15, 434, 446, 469
Dickinson, Roy, 488
Dillon, Tom, 486
Disbrow, Alice, 373
Dix, John Alden, 188
Dix, Margaret, 96
Dixiecrats, 204, 280, 347, 375
Dock, Lavinia, 357
Dodsworth, Mr., 99
Doheny, Edward L., 290, 353
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 158
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 464
Dorr, Rheta Child, 360
draft riots of 1863, 29–30
Draper, George, 327
Dreier, Mary Elizabeth, 321, 322, 339, 419
Du Bois, W. E. B., 204
Dulles, John Foster, 19
Dunn, Herbert O., 270–71
Dunn Board, 270–71, 305
Duse, Eleanora, 100
Earhart, Amelia, 333, 363
Early, Stephen, 279, 283
Eastman, Crystal, 212, 213, 241, 294, 356, 357, 358, 399
Eastman, Max, 241
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 207
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18
Eleanor and Franklin (Lash), 436
“Eleanor Roosevelt Mobile,” 11
elections:
of 1920, 265–87
of 1928, 371–79
of 1932, 445–60, 464, 470–72
Eliot, Charles W., 277–78, 343
Ely, Gertrude, 349
Ely, Joseph B., 497
Emmet, Ellen “Bay,” 129–30
Emmet, Grenville, 286
Emmet, Lydia Field, 129
Emmet, Marvin & Roosevelt, 286
England, 29, 33–34, 40–41, 101–24, 413–14
Equal Rights, 357–58
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 354–360
Espionage Act (1917), 239
Eulalie, Saint, 113
Evans, Mrs., 86–91
Everest, Wesley, 281
Exposition of Women’s Arts and Industries, 419–20
Fairfax, Lord, 153n
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), 359
Fall, Albert B., 353
Farley, James, 411, 451, 452, 457
Farrar, Geraldine, 485
Fay, Elton, 451, 454
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 3, 10, 244, 345
Federal Employees Union, 258
Federal Reserve Board, 493
feminist movement, 6–9, 11, 19, 104, 240, 258–59, 288–301, 321–22, 329, 338–40, 347–54, 358–63, 366–71, 419–23
Ferguson, Edith, 173–74
Ferguson, Emma Munro, 173–74
Ferguson, Isabella Selmes, see Greenway, Isabella Selmes Ferguson
Ferguson, Lady Helen, 174, 400
Ferguson, Robert H. Munro, 77, 129, 131, 132n, 134, 197, 198, 216, 238
Ferguson, Ronald (Lord Novar), 129, 174, 199, 400
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, 286–87
Flynn, Edward J., 379, 411, 454, 457
Forbes, Charles Stuart, 171
Forbes, Deborah Perry Delano “Dora” “Doe,” 152, 172–73, 262
Ford, Henry, 290, 419–20
Foreign Policy Association, 243
Forest, Fish and Game Committee, N.Y. Senate, 194
Forum, 241
“400,” 22–23
Fox, Eddie, 430, 434
Freedom of Information Act (1974), 345
Freud, Sigmund, 295, 479
Gandy, Kitty, 172
Garner, Ettie, 491
Garner, John Nance, 451, 452–53, 457, 491
Gennerich, Gus, 431, 447, 451
George I, King of England, 473
Gide, André, 104
Gifford, Helen, 106, 108
Gifford, Leonie, 108, 119, 122, 126–27
Gizycka, Countess, see Patterson, Eleanor Medill “Cissy”
Gizycka, Count Josef, 221
Glass Houses (Patterson), 221
Goelet, Bobbie, 165
Golden, John, 431
Goldman, Emma, 240–41
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell), 28n
Gracie, Anna Bulloch “Annie” (great-aunt), 28, 44, 48, 49, 52, 82, 83–84, 92, 140, 170
Gracie, Archibald, 34–35
Gracie, James King (great-uncle), 44, 46, 48, 52, 60, 68, 88, 89, 140
Grady, Thomas, 192, 193
Grant, Jane Maria (Lady Strachey), 103
Gray, David, 202, 211, 262
Gray, Maude Hall Waterbury (aunt), 25, 82, 95, 99, 100, 126, 151, 153, 211, 228, 264
ER and, 163, 202, 262–64, 432
Grayson, Cary, 218, 220
Grayson, David (Ray Stannard Baker), 337
Greene, Frank, 344–45
Greenway, Isabella Selmes Ferguson, 134, 173, 188–89, 197, 198
ER and, 165–66, 180, 207–8, 226, 234, 262, 263–64, 271, 276, 459, 460
Greenway, Jack, 459n
Greenwich Village, 2, 6, 14, 263, 293, 297, 322, 431, 434
Greenwood Cemetery, 45, 89, 91
Grey, Sir Edward, 261
Grief (Saint-Gaudens), 235–36, 248, 380, 428, 492
Groton, 127, 139–40, 146–49, 169, 197, 274, 299, 319, 329, 395
Gurewitsch, David, 19, 441
Hadden, Valerie, 96
Haiti, 212–13, 279–80
Hall, Edith, see Morgan, Edith Livingston Ludlow Hall
Hall, Edward “Eddie” (uncle), 24–25, 101, 126, 151, 202
Hall, Elizabeth, see Mortimer, Elizabeth Hall
Hall, Josie Zabriskie, 126, 202
Hall, Mary Livingston Ludlow (grandmother), 23, 24, 56, 109–10, 116, 126–28, 151, 202
character and personality of, 93–94, 155, 249
death of, 249, 264
ER and, 91–95, 99–101, 115, 155, 162–63, 165, 168, 215
son-in-law and, 58, 64, 77–78, 81–82, 84–86, 91
Hall, Maude, see Gray, Maude Hall Waterbury
Hall, Valentine G. (grandfather), 23–24, 29, 38
Hall, Valentine “Vallie” (uncle), 24–25, 47, 87, 89, 101, 126, 127, 151, 432
Halle, Rita S., 499–500
Hamilton, Alice, 356, 357–58
Hand, Learned, 342 “Happy Days Are Here Again,” 453–454
Harbord, James G., 343
Harding, Florence, 277–78
Harding, Warren G., 242, 274–78, 280, 286, 291, 353, 487
Harriman, Edward Henry, 134
Harriman, Florence Jaffray Hurst “Daisy,” 215
Harriman, Mary, see Rumsey, Mary Harriman
Harriman, Mary Williamson Averell, 134
Harris, Duncan, 131, 132n
Harrison, Benjamin, 55, 72
Hart, Merwin K., 361–62
Harvard Club, 184
Harvard Crimson, 149
Harvard University, 35–36, 130, 138, 139, 143, 147, 149, 160, 185, 197, 216, 329, 330, 396
Hasty Pudding Club, 149
Hay, Clara, 235
Hay, John, 72, 86, 235
Hay, Mary Garrett, 303
Hearst, William Randolph, 184, 190,
221, 452–53, 457
Henderson, Nathalie, 134
Henry Street Settlement, 134, 406
“Her Forty-fifth Birthday” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 427–28
Heterodoxy, 339
Hickok, Lorena “Hick,” 454, 458–93
background and education of, 480–84
character and personality of, 470, 477–78, 479–81, 489
correspondence of ER and, 478–79, 488–89, 497–98
death of, 15
on ER, 386–87, 450–52, 465–70
ER’s relationship with, 7, 13, 15, 19, 336, 434, 445, 446–47, 449–52, 459–80, 488–93, 495–98
journalism career of, 450–52, 458–60, 465–69, 473–74, 480, 484–88, 495–97
musical interests of, 481, 484–86
Hickok, Ruby, 480
Hitch, Annie Delano, 152
Hitler, Adolf, 7, 17
Hoey, Jane, 406
Holmes, John Haynes, 212
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 207
Holocaust, 17, 390
Holroyd, Michael, 104
homosexuality, 267–71, 305–7
Hooker, Edith Houghton, 357–58
Hooker, Harry, 134, 202
Hooper, Robert William, 245–46
Hoover, Herbert, 242, 276, 371, 374, 378, 418n, 469–70, 493–94, 495
Hoover, Ike, 490
Hoover, John Edgar, 3, 239, 258, 345
Hoover, Lou Henry, 490
Hopkins, Charlotte Everett, 205
Horn, Avice, 108
House, Edward M., 342 House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 263
Howard University, 253
Howe, Grace, 261, 284
Howe, Hartley, 284
Howe, Louis McHenry, 261, 336, 409, 447, 449–52, 461, 480, 490–91
character and personality of, 199, 283–85, 424, 440
ER and, 6–7, 199, 283–85, 302, 308–309, 311–12, 313, 319–20, 340, 410, 411, 446, 460, 469
FDR and, 6, 199, 210, 231, 282–83, 308–12, 376–77, 387–88, 390–91, 393, 410, 411, 418, 424, 447, 452–454
Howe, Marie Jennie, 339
Howe, Mary, 284
Hudson, Erastus, 269, 270, 271
Hughes, Charles Evans, 186, 214
Hull, Cordell, 198, 346
Hull House, 134
Hunting Big Game in the ‘Eighties: The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt, Sportsman. Edited by His Daughter (Elliott Roosevelt), 498
Huntington, Alice Kidd, 95–96
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (Theodore Roosevelt), 35
Hurst, Fannie, 15–16
Hyde Park, N.Y., 40, 41, 133, 142, 144, 160, 168, 174–75, 181, 183, 185, 223, 226–27, 251–52, 316, 419, 464
Ibsen, Henrik, 158
Ickes, Harold, 276
India, 40, 41–42, 44, 45, 57
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW; Wobblies), 280–81
International Congress of Working Women, 258–59
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 258, 422
It’s Up to the Women (Eleanor Roosevelt), 360, 499
Jackson, Andrew, 205
Jacobs, Patti R., 349
James, Henry, 103, 129
James, William, 103
Jay, John, 22
Jefferson, Thomas, 355, 403
Jewish Welfare Board, 225
Johnson, Andrew, 203
Johnson, Hiram, 276
Jones, LeRoy, 316
Jones Beach, 417–18
Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, 134–35, 153, 289, 421–22
Jusserand, Eliza Richards, 206
Jusserand, Jules, 206
Justice Department, U.S., 269
Keeley Center, 75–76
Keen, William, 309
Kelley, Florence, 274, 321, 356, 357, 358
Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928), 364
Kennedy, John F., 19
Kennedy, Joseph P., 452
Kennedy, Margaret, 318
Kent, Samuel Nash, 268, 269
Kenyon, Dorothy, 363
King, Clarence, 235
Knickerbocker Club, 22, 23, 39, 46, 53, 184
Kollontai, Alexandra, 294–95, 322
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 295
Kuhn, Mrs. Hartman, 160, 182
Ku Klux Klan, 250, 272, 299, 347, 350, 390
labor movement, 258–59, 361–63, 422–423
Laboulaye, Lefebvre de, 206
Laboulaye, Marie de, 206
La Follette, Robert, 351
Laidlaw, Mrs. James Lees, 321
Lamont, Mrs. Thomas, 418n
Lamont, Thomas, 418n
Lane, Anne, 208, 211
Lane, Franklin K., 208–9
Langdon, Sophie, 96
Lape, Esther Everett, 292–93, 339, 342–346, 489
death of, 9
on ER, 8–9, 377
ER and, 6–7, 13, 14, 15, 19, 275, 289, 292–93, 296–99, 302–3, 315, 336, 410, 434, 469
Larooco, 314, 316, 319, 323, 336
Lash, Joseph, 7, 19, 436–37, 440–41, 446
Lash, Trude Pratt, 7, 19
Law, Nigel, 218
Lawrence, John, 314
Lawrence College, 484
Leach, Agnes Brown, 294, 339, 399, 457–58
League of Nations, 238, 243, 260–62, 271–72, 289, 291, 342, 344–46, 452, 457
ER’s support of, 3, 233, 260, 262, 274, 282, 303, 352, 382
League of Women Voters, 275, 320, 321, 334, 356, 423, 469
criticism of, 290–91
ER and, 242–43, 276, 288–92, 297–298, 302–3, 338–40, 423
New York, 288–92, 297–98, 302–3, 338–40, 423
Leavitt, Sarah Foster, 208
Ledyard, Lewis Cass, Jr., 314
LeHand, Marguerite “Missy,” 285–86, 424, 447, 451
Earl Miller and, 435, 437–38
ER and, 285–86, 307, 310, 316–17, 326, 327, 407, 411, 465, 467–68
FDR and, 14, 310, 314–17, 376–77, 409, 410–11, 418, 437, 491
Lehman, Herbert, 376, 411, 464
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 259, 295
lesbianism, 13–15, 295–96
Levermore, Charles E., 343–44
Lewis, Sinclair, 487
Liberator, 241
Lincoln, Abraham, 245, 351
Livingston, Mary, 473–74
Livingston, Robert, 22, 473
Livingston, Robert R., 21, 22, 473
Livingston, Sara Van Brugh, 22
Lloyd George, Megan, 363
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 50, 86, 206, 260–262
Lodge, Nannie, 86, 206
London National Society for Women’s Service, 104
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 99, 314
Long Island State Park Commission, 390–91
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt (cousin), 37, 45, 92, 167, 220–24, 274–76
on ER, 128–29, 220
ER and, 92, 128, 165, 207–8, 220, 222, 223, 255, 261
on FDR, 146, 165, 222
FDR and, 220, 222–23, 224, 229
TR and, 51, 165, 178, 278
unconventional behavior of, 165, 207–208, 220, 221–23, 261
White House wedding of, 178
Longworth, Nicholas, 178, 220, 221–22, 278
Longworth, Paulina, 221–22
Love, Eleanor (Lash), 436
Lovett, Robert W., 309
Ludlow, Elizabeth Livingston (great-aunt), 70, 77, 162
Ludlow, Elizabeth Livingston (great-grandmother), 21–22
Lusitania, 213
Lusk, Clayton R., 322
Lusk, Dr., 52, 56, 57
Lusk Committee, 290, 322
Lynch, Tom, 279
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 200, 271–72, 350, 453, 455
McAllister, Ward, 22–23
McCarthy, Joseph, 18
McCauley, Edward, 268
McCook, Janet, 158
McCormick, J. Medill, 221, 261
McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 221
McCormick, Ruth Hanna, 261
MacDonald, Ishbel, 363
McDuffie, Irvin, 462–63
McEachern, Elspeth, 168
McIntyre, Marvin, 279, 460
Mack, John, 184–85
McKinley, William, 137, 490
MacMonnies, Frederick, 129
MacVeagh, Margaretta, 137
Madeleine (nurse), 70, 93
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 211
Mann, Catherine “Katy,” 59–62, 65–66
Mann, Elliott Roosevelt, 65n, 66
Marvin, Langdon, 286
Maxwell, Lucia, 243
Meadow Brook Club, 46, 50, 52, 102
Medill, Joseph, 220
Melba, Nellie, 484
Mercer, Lucy, see Rutherford, Lucy Page Mercer
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27
Mexico, 212, 279, 365
Milholland, Inez, 195, 214
Miller, Adolph, 208
Miller, Anna Eleanor, 436
Miller, Earl, 7, 429–42, 451
character and personality of, 429–30, 433, 438–42
ER’s relationship with, 13, 15, 16, 19, 430–42, 445–47, 469, 488
letters of ER and, 435–36, 438, 478
marriages of, 435, 436, 446, 464–65
Missy LeHand and, 435, 437–38
Miller, Earl, Jr., 436
Miller, Mary Sprague, 208
Miller, Nathan, 286, 290–91, 340–41
Miller, Ruth Taylor Bellinger, 464–65
Miller, Simone, 436
Mills, Harriet May, 319, 322
Milwaukee Sentinel, 484
Minneapolis Tribune, 469, 484, 486–87
Minnesota, University of, 484
Miss Chapin’s school, 312
Mitchell, Margaret, 28n
Moley, Raymond, 456
Monroe Doctrine, 212
Morgan, Barbara, 263, 264
Morgan, Edith Livingston Ludlow Hall “Pussie” (aunt), 25, 27, 53, 94–95, 98–100, 126, 131
ER and, 115, 127, 163, 263–64
tragic death of, 263–64
Morgan, Ellen, 263, 264
Morgan, Forbes, 131, 263–64
Morgan, J. P., 190, 263, 418n
Morgan, William Forbes, Jr., 264
Morgenthau, Elinor, 331–32, 339, 372, 390
ER and, 7, 319, 349, 354, 383–84, 410
Morgenthau, Henry, 7, 319, 372, 382, 390, 411
Morley, John, 103, 124
Morse, Ella “Ellie,” 487–88
Mortimer, Elizabeth Hall “Tissie” (aunt), 24, 48, 49, 53, 56, 99, 102, 116, 128, 151–52, 172, 262, 319
Mortimer, Stanley, 56, 102, 151, 172
Moses, Robert, 387–92, 417–18, 448
Moskowitz, Belle, 339, 372, 387–92, 448
Mount Holyoke College, 194
Murphy, Charles Francis, 184, 190, 272, 347
Murray, Pauli, 7
Museum of Natural History, 27
Mussolini, Benito, 416
My Boy Franklin (Sara Delano Roosevelt), 169
“My Day,” 7, 489
Nathan, Maud, 135
Nation, 190, 280
National American Woman Suffrage Association, 275
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 204, 243, 253, 254
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 240
National Woman’s Democratic Law Enforcement League, 374–75
National Woman’s Party, 275–76, 293–294, 298, 355–56, 357–58
National Women’s Committee of the Democratic Party, 373
Naval War College, 265
Naval Department, U.S., 203, 205, 210, 214
FDR as Assistant Secretary of, 200, 201, 209–10, 212–13, 224, 260–61, 264–71, 279–80, 305–7, 353, 429, 490
homosexuality scandal in, 267–71, 305–7
Newbold, Mary, 131
Newbold, Thomas Jefferson, 115, 186, 305
New Deal, 16, 148n, 222, 415, 456
Newport, R.I., 38, 51–52, 136, 267–71, 299–300, 313
“New Women,” 293–99
New York Chamber of Commerce, 25
New York Daily News, 436
New York Herald, 67–68, 130, 345
New York Herald Tribune, 296, 344, 351
New York League of Women Voters, 288–92, 297–98, 302–3, 338–40, 423
New York Mirror, 488
New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 195
New York State Factory Commission, 194
New York State Police Academy, 430
New York Stock Exchange, 415, 418
New York Times, 44, 81, 218, 240, 241, 305–6, 340, 344, 345, 348, 352, 375–76, 420, 473, 474
New York Times Magazine, 370–71
Nicholson, Mrs. Jesse W., 375
Nixon, Richard M., 353n
Nobel Peace Prize, 225
Non-Partisan Legislative Committee, 365
Norrie, Margaret, 292, 321, 339, 349, 363
Norton, Mary, 373, 410
Nott, Marjorie, 137
O’Connor, Basil “Doc,” 317, 411, 456
O’Connor, Julia, 258
O’Day, Caroline Love Goodwin, 15, 323–24, 331, 339, 346, 351, 366, 372, 373, 384, 393
ER and, 7, 319, 323, 383, 397, 410
O’Day, Charles, 324n
O’Day, Daniel, 324
O’Day, Daniel, Jr., 324n
O’Day, Elia, 324n
O’Gorman, James, 191, 200
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 32, 58
Olivia (Bussy), 104, 116–20
O’Malley, Mrs., 483–84
One Woman to Another (Robinson), 90–91
On My Own (Eleanor Roosevelt), 18
Ophir Hall, 158
O’Reilly, Leonora, 258
Orthopedic Hospital, 27
Osborne, Thomas Mott, 184, 199
Ottinger, Albert, 376, 379
“Our Foreign Policy—What Is It?” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 364–65
Overhalse, Mrs., 93
Ovington, Mary White, 204
Oxford University, 114n, 389, 397
Oyster Bay, N.Y., 25, 26, 33, 48, 66, 92, 304, 354
Paderewski, Ignacy, 484
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 239–42, 244, 254, 269, 271–72, 290
Palmer Raids, 240–41, 242
Panama Canal, 143
Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, 353
Paris, 100, 103, 114, 115, 170–71, 172–173, 234
Parish, Henry, 153
Parish, Susie (cousin), 77, 78, 115–16, 134, 187, 262, 288
ER and, 128, 136, 153, 155, 161, 162, 179, 189, 299, 319
Parks, Lillian Rogers, 437–38, 496
Passavant, Carola de, 108
Patriarchs’ Ball, 22–23, 81
Patterson, Eleanor Medill “Cissy” (Countess Gizycka), 137, 220–22
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 221
Paul, Alice, 294, 355–57
Peabody, Endicott, 147–48, 166, 169
Peabody, George Foster, 335
peace movement, 212–14, 259, 342–46, 364–65
Pendleton, Ellen Fitz, 343
Perkins, Ed, 184–85
Perkins, Frances, 194, 324n, 339, 384–386, 411, 426, 469
on ER, 385–86, 406–7
ER and, 385–86, 391–95
Pershing, John J., 214, 343
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 4, 238
Phillips, Caroline Astor Drayton, 203, 208
Phillips, William, 208
Pinchot, Amos, 212
Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce, 274, 275
Pinchot, Gifford, 194–95
Pirate and the Lady, The, 433–34
Pisan, Christine de, 113
Pius XI, Pope, 416
Platt, Charles A., 183
“Politics Here and Elsewhere” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 286
Porcellian Club, 36, 149
Porter, Polly, 296, 328
Pott’s disease, 29
Poughkeepsie Eagle News, 274
Pound, Roscoe, 342
Pratt, Trude, see Lash, Trude Pratt
Presidential Commission on the: Status of Women, 19
Preston, Evelyn, 363
Princeton University, 26, 196, 329
Prinzessin Victoria Luise, 150–51
Progressive Party, 195–97, 351
Prohibition, 228, 305, 347, 374, 378
Proskauer, Joseph, 388
Pulitzer, Ralph, 190
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Cécile, 111
race riots of 1919, 251–54
Racine, Jean Baptiste, 118
racism, 203–4, 238, 250–54, 416, 417–418, 439
Raleigh News and Observer, 204
Rantoul, Lois, 258
Raskob, John J., 366, 376–77
Rayburn, Sam, 452
Raymond and I (Robins), 259
Read, Elizabeth Fisher, 292–93, 302, 339
ER and, 6–7, 13, 292–93, 296–99, 336, 410, 434, 469
Redbook, 332, 366–67, 370
Red Cross, 215, 225, 259, 271, 321, 410
Red Scare, 238–45, 258, 280, 303, 322
Reed, James, 344–45
Reid, Elizabeth Mills, 134, 158
Reid, Helen Rogers, 296, 339
Reid, Jean, 134, 135, 137, 156, 158
Reid, Ogden, 296
Reid, Whitelaw, 134, 158, 170
Rhodes, June Hamilton, 373, 410
Ribot, Alexander, 124
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 274
Ritchie, Albert, 452, 455
Rivington Street Settlement, 135, 137, 138, 468
Robbins, Irene, 220, 255
Robbins, Kassie, see Collier, Katharine Delano Robbins Price
Robbins, Muriel Delano, 139, 165
Robbins, Warren Delano, 166, 220, 255, 490
Robins, Elizabeth, 259
Robins, Margaret Dreier, 239–40, 258–259, 276, 321
Robins, Raymond, 258–60
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt “Pussie” (aunt), 27, 29–30, 36–37, 39, 40, 42, 45, 49, 51, 55, 67, 77, 89–92, 122, 129, 131, 148, 274
ER and, 140, 152
family correspondence of, 86, 88, 91–92
poetry of, 90–91
Robinson, Douglas, 37, 42, 45, 46, 54, 60, 67, 75, 88, 92
Robinson, Helen Roosevelt, 130, 160, 208
Robinson, Theodore Douglas, 130, 149, 160, 354
Rock Creek Cemetery, 235–36, 248, 380, 428, 492
Rockefeller, John D., 324
Rockey, Edna, 309
Rogers, Arch, 51
Rogers, Pendleton, 131
Rogers, Will, 342, 350
Roosevelt, Alice, see Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Alice Lee, 40, 45–46, 50–51, 178
Roosevelt, Anna, see Cowles, Anna Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor, see Boettiger, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt:
abandonment feared by, 48–49, 219
active widowhood of, 18–20
adolescent writing of, 96–99
ambition of, 97–98, 193
ancestry and heritage of, 21–37
anorexia of, 16, 235
antifascism of, 7, 17
antiracist activism of, 3, 6, 7, 16–17, 250–51, 254, 390
anti-Semitism of, 7, 390
armaments and military solutions opposed by, 19
article by, 17, 19–20, 286, 303–4, 332, 348, 364–65, 366–67, 370, 381–82, 399, 421–22, 424–25, 427–428, 442–45, 474–75
awakening political interests of, 173–174
Birth Control League membership of, 12
birth of, 12, 38, 46
Bok Peace Award and, 342, 345–46
books by, 6, 8, 18, 20, 255, 360, 431, 498–99
as chair of Democratic women’s platform committee, 346
childhood and adolescence of, 9, 15, 16, 21, 38–39, 48–49, 52–55, 61–63, 69, 74, 77–88, 91–124, 175
Child Labor Amendment supported by, 362
clothing tastes of, 106–7, 128, 162–163, 303, 386–87, 450, 462, 463, 471
commercial endorsements by, 19, 474
courtship and wedding of, 132–33, 138–43, 149–69
criticism of, 19, 342, 345–46, 434, 462, 474
dance halls issue and, 362–63
dancing and sports enjoyed by, 107–8, 132, 171–72, 181, 216, 314, 333, 431
DAR criticized by, 243
death of, 14, 15, 20
diaries and journals of, 98, 278, 303, 318
discipline of, 83, 156–57, 427–28
on divorce, 444–45
divorce considered by, 228–31, 445–446
driving of, 225, 333, 432
early married life of, 167–86
early suitors of, 152–53
editorial work of, 331–32, 364–66, 472–73
educational principles of, 399–406
education of, 4, 30, 53, 61, 62–63, 69, 70, 82–83, 94–96, 99–124
European honeymoon of, 169–74
FBI file on, 3, 10, 244, 345
FDR’s correspondence with, 135, 136, 139–43, 155–58, 159–60, 161, 185, 197–98, 201, 212–13, 217–18, 219, 223–24, 252, 262, 291–92, 306, 316–17, 319
feminist activism of, 6–9, 11, 19, 240, 258–59, 288–301, 329, 338–40, 347–50, 352–54, 358–63, 366–71, 419–23
on First Lady role, 445–47, 472, 498
flying lessons of, 333, 363–64
Foreign Policy Association and, 243
on forty-eight-hour week, 360–61
frugality of, 463
gift-giving of, 42, 413–14, 463
as grandmother, 381
hospitalization of, 318–19
human rights work of, 16–18, 192–193, 205
income of, 73, 82, 177, 317–18, 332, 463
independent domestic arrangements of, 316–37
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (cont.)
Jewish refugees, support of, 17, 192
leadership qualities of, 96, 108, 202, 350
League of Nations supported by, 3, 233, 260, 262, 274, 282, 303, 352, 382
League of Women Voters activism of, 242–43, 276, 288–92, 297–98, 302–3, 338–40, 423
marital advice offered by, 442–45
marriage of, see Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
memoirs and autobiographical essays of, 8, 9, 18, 21, 80, 81, 114, 123, 230, 234, 427–28, 430–31
migraine headaches of, 16, 210, 235, 256, 333
misogyny noted by, 368, 369
modesty and self-deprecation of, 2, 9, 156, 168, 180, 193, 332, 346–47, 398, 472
National Democratic Women’s Committee codirectorship of, 373
as “New Woman,” 296–99
New York State hospital inspection tours of, 432–33
nonconformity of, 1, 7, 14, 71, 72, 250–51, 288, 296, 320, 382, 462
oral-history project of, 15
poetry as interest of, 91, 93, 96, 98, 99, 140–41
political advice to women by, 5–6, 47, 303–4, 364–69, 381–82, 420, 423, 424–25, 426, 499
political entertaining of, 188–89, 191, 203, 210–11, 261, 407
political power and influence of, 5, 8, 11, 338–80, 362, 365–66
pregnancies and motherhood of, 174–183, 187–88, 189, 203, 210–11, 224, 299, 311–12, 314, 327–30, 395–96
press conferences of, 7, 489
press relations of, 283, 475–76
Prohibition issue and, 347, 374–75
reading interests of, 93, 95, 98–99, 158–59, 402
settlement house and social investigation work of, 9, 134–38, 209, 468
ship-board trauma of, 48–49, 58
social debut of, 120, 121, 125–32, 173
speeches of, 318, 319–20, 340–41, 361–63, 371–72, 374, 419–20, 423, 499
spirituality of, 5, 492
syndicated column of, 7, 489
teaching of, 7, 19, 332, 381, 395–406, 472, 473
“Trooping for Democracy” tours of, 339–40
as U.N. representative, 17, 18, 359
war work of, 215–16, 225, 289
Women’s Trade Union League and, 243, 258, 321, 329, 361–62, 406, 418–19, 422
world peace crusade of, 364–65
Roosevelt, Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall (mother), 21, 23–25, 38–39, 42–67, 131, 133
character and personality of, 38–39, 46, 47–48, 56, 57, 59, 71–72, 216, 230
courtship and marriage of, 23, 25, 38, 42–45
ER’s relationship with, 21, 39, 46, 47, 62, 69–72, 79–80, 100, 168
husband’s relationship with, 38, 42–44, 46–52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 62–67, 75–78
illness and death of, 21, 77–81, 96, 167, 231, 249
physical appearance of, 21, 24, 49, 79, 162
wifely loyalty of, 47–48, 54, 56–57, 66–67, 68, 71–72, 80
Roosevelt, Betsy Cushing, 396, 413
Roosevelt, Corinne, see Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Cornelius Van Schaack, 26
Roosevelt, Edith Carow (aunt), 51, 55, 61, 66, 92, 162, 164–65, 178, 232, 446, 469–70
Roosevelt, Elliott (brother), 53, 70, 77, 84, 88, 91, 197
Roosevelt, Elliott (father), 27–37, 163, 170
alcoholism of, 37–40, 43–46, 53–55, 59–60, 62–63, 81–82, 84, 88
Anna Roosevelt’s relationship with, 38, 42–44, 46–52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 62–67, 75–78
charm and attractiveness of, 23, 25, 32, 39, 43
chronic youthful illnesses of, 30, 33–35, 42, 44, 45
courtship and marriage of, 23, 25, 38, 42–45
death of, 88–89, 155, 231
diary of, 42–43
education of, 34–35
ER on, 23, 32, 46, 52–53, 58, 80, 81, 86–87
ER’s relationship with, 4, 8, 23, 39, 42, 46, 58, 71, 80, 82–88, 91, 136, 137, 230
fears and insecurities of, 33–34, 36, 42, 43–44, 53–54, 59
generosity and devotion of, 32, 36
hospitalization of, 65–68, 72–73, 75–76
hunting by, 35, 39–40, 498
India trip of, 40–42
Mary Hall and, 58, 64, 77–78, 81–82, 84–86, 91
paternity scandal and, 59–62, 65–66
TR’s competition with, 31–32, 35, 51
TR’s relationship with, 31–32, 34–36, 39–40, 50–51, 55–57, 61–67, 72–73, 88–89, 91
youthful gender confusion of, 35
Roosevelt, Elliott (son), 183–85, 396, 451, 454, 465, 490, 491
childhood and adolescence of, 187, 226, 232, 312–13, 329, 330, 373
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 41, 130–31
ancestry of, 143–44
as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 200, 201, 209–10, 212–13, 224, 260–61, 264–71, 279–80, 305–7, 353, 429, 490
birth of, 145
character and personality of, 146–49, 154, 180, 184, 186, 218, 231, 313
childhood and adolescence of, 134, 145–49
conservation policies of, 194–95
courtship and wedding of, 132–33, 138–43, 149–69
criticism of, 148n, 191, 193, 278, 269–271, 305–7, 391, 438–39
death of, 18, 229
diaries of, 130–31, 132, 133, 140
education of, 130, 138, 139, 146–49, 155–56, 160, 164, 169, 177, 184
ER’s correspondence with, 135, 136, 139–43, 155–58, 159–60, 161, 185, 197–98, 201, 212–13, 217–18, 219, 223–24, 252, 262, 291–92, 306, 316–17, 319
ER’s political influence on, 189–90, 387, 391–93, 424–26
ER’s political support of, 185, 187, 189, 192, 196–97, 265, 277–78, 279, 281–82, 377, 458
ER’s relationship with, 6, 9, 13, 132–136, 138–43, 149–86, 202–3, 210, 215–16, 223–24, 231–34, 265, 309–318, 409–10
family insignia of, 166
flirting and womanizing of, 6, 9, 154, 170, 216, 217, 218, 220, 224, 228–232, 234, 236, 251, 255, 285–86
as governor of New York, 381, 387–396, 409–11, 415–26
gubernatorial campaign and election of, 365, 376–79, 410, 411
hand-controlled automobile of, 337, 449
homosexuality investigation by, 267–271, 305–7
illnesses of, 199, 219–20, 227–28, 266, 304, 308–18
income of, 177, 228, 266–67, 286–87, 317–18, 378
infantile paralysis and rehabilitation of, 226, 308–18, 335, 341, 350–51, 377
legal career of, 184, 286–87, 317
mother and, 133–34, 141, 142, 145–146, 148–51, 155, 159–60, 164, 168–69, 174–75, 178, 185, 199, 201, 226, 228, 229, 256, 266–67, 310, 311, 334–35, 377–79
night life and party-going of, 184, 215–16, 255, 282, 304
nightmares and sleepwalking of, 169–170
political style of, 186, 190–91, 198, 278–80, 452, 454–55
presidency of, 148n, 281, 395, 490–500
presidential aspirations of, 438–39, 445
presidential nomination and campaign of, 445–60, 464, 470–72
social welfare policies of, 415–16, 439, 455, 495
as state senator in New York, 184–87, 190–95, 198–99, 282
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (cont.)
vice-presidential campaign of, 272–74, 277–86
women’s issues supported by, 195, 393
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr. (son) (died in infancy), 183, 187
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr. “Brother” (son), 203, 451, 454
childhood and adolescence of, 312–313, 327–28, 329, 372, 395–96, 412–15
Roosevelt, Gracie Hall (brother), 64–67, 299, 432
childhood and adolescence of, 67, 70, 77, 84, 85, 87, 126, 139–40, 169
education of, 127, 139–40, 197
ER’s relationship with, 127, 139–40, 169, 197, 226, 257
FDR and, 181–82, 197
military service of, 214–15
Roosevelt, Harriet Howland, 26
Roosevelt, Helen Astor, see Robinson, Helen Astor Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Helen Schermerhorn Astor, 130–31, 143
Roosevelt, Isaac, 26
Roosevelt, Isaac “the Patriot,” 25–26
Roosevelt, James (ancestor), 26
Roosevelt, James (son), 18, 183, 396, 413, 451, 454, 459, 461
childhood and adolescence of, 188, 226, 232, 244–45, 274, 327–28, 329, 330, 332, 350–51, 372
on ER, 435
Roosevelt, James Roosevelt “Rosy,” 88, 101n, 130–31, 143, 147, 166, 308
Roosevelt, James Roosevelt “Taddie,” Jr., 147
Roosevelt, James “Squire James,” 40–41, 132, 143–46, 149
death of, 132, 133, 147
wife and, 26, 41, 163
Roosevelt, John Aspinwall (son), 203, 212–13, 327–29, 412–15, 451, 454
Roosevelt, Margaret Barnhill, 26
Roosevelt, Margaret Richardson, 197, 215, 257
Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch “Mittie” (grandmother), 27–31, 33–34, 37, 41, 42, 45–46, 143, 208, 335
Roosevelt, Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, 26
Roosevelt, Quentin (cousin), 214–15
Roosevelt, Rebecca Howland, 143, 168
Roosevelt, Sadie Meisinger, 147
Roosevelt, Sara Delano (mother-in-law), 25, 40–41, 52, 141–46, 163
coldness and disapproval of, 143, 144, 155, 168, 185, 325–26, 334, 446
ER’s relationship with, 132–33, 142–143, 150–51, 155, 157, 159–60, 167–69, 174–77, 180–81, 183, 202, 226–28, 229, 233, 250–52, 256–57, 283, 310–12, 330–31, 333–35, 419
family background of, 143–45
FDR’s relationship with, 133–34, 141, 142, 145–46, 148–51, 155, 159–60, 164, 168–69, 174–75, 178, 185, 199, 201, 226, 228, 229, 256, 266–267, 310, 311, 334–35, 377–79
as grandmother, 179, 256–57, 311–12, 372, 412–13, 416
marriage of, see Roosevelt, James “Squire James”
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. (uncle), 27–37, 40, 189, 225, 242, 259
Alice Roosevelt Longworth and, 51, 165, 178, 278
brother and, 31–36, 39–40, 50–51, 55–57, 61–67, 72–73, 88–89, 91
death of, 232–33
education of, 35–36, 149
ER and, 162, 164–67, 196, 206, 214, 225
FDR and, 206, 214
hunting by, 32–33, 35, 39, 50–51, 72
military advocacy of, 30, 72, 211, 214
political career of, 45, 55, 174, 185
presidency of, 26, 30, 37, 137–38, 143, 162, 164–67, 174, 178, 184, 186, 200, 371
third-party platform of, 195–97, 204
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr. (grandfather), 26–34, 36
Roosevelt, Theodore, III (cousin), 242, 276, 278, 351–54
Root, Elihu, 200, 342
Rosenman, Dorothy, 424
Rosenman, Sam, 411, 424, 451, 454, 456, 457
Rosenvelt, Claes Martenszen van, 25
Rosenvelt, Jannetje Samuels Thomas van, 25
Roser, Frederic, 70, 72, 96, 97, 180
Ross, Ishbel, 489
Ross, Nellie Tayloe, 373
Roswell, Ga., 27, 29
Rough Riders, 129, 137, 214, 459n
Ruches, Les, 30, 103, 116–17
Rukeyser, Muriel, 10
Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 134, 137, 156, 324n
Ruskin, John, 158
Russell, Lillian, 484
Russian Revolution, 237, 259–60
Rutherford, Alice Morton, 229
Rutherford, Barbara, 229
Rutherford, Lucy Page Mercer, 217–20, 250, 439–40
character and personality of, 217, 439–40
ER and, 6, 217
FDR’s affair with, 6, 9, 217, 218, 220, 224, 228–32, 234, 236, 252, 265, 266, 313, 436, 492
Rutherford, Winthrop, 229
Sabalo, 306–8
Sackville-West, Vita, 9
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 235–36
Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of, 317
Saint Lawrence Seaway, 466, 467
Saint Paul’s School, 34–35
Salvation Army, 147
Samaia, Mademoiselle, 110, 122
Sapphische Ode (Brahms), 486
Scarborough School, 289
Schneiderman, Rose, 258, 329, 334, 337, 339, 358, 359, 361, 418n, 422
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 486
Scott, Sir Walter, 99
Sedition Act (1918), 239
Selmes, Martha Flandreau, 134, 173
Senate, U.S., 190–91, 262
Sesame and Lilies (Ruskin), 158
Shaver, Mrs. Clem, 375–76
Shaw, George Bernard, 158–59
Sheehan, “Blue-eyed-Billy,” 190
Shepard, Edward, 190
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infant Protection Act (1921), 243, 290, 362, 388
Sherman, Florence Bagley, 63–64, 72, 73–74, 87, 90
Sherman, Harold, 87
Sherman, Mary, 87
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 29
Sherwood, Jean, 304
Sherwood, Mrs. Sidney, 304
Sherwood, Rosina Emmet, 129
Shoumatoff, Elizabeth, 229
Siemens, Frau Dr. von, 124
Simkhovitch, Mary, 339
Sims, William, 265–69, 271
Sinclair, Archibald, 354
Sinclair, Harry, 353–54
Sloane, Jessie, 96
Smith, Alfred E., 190, 192–94, 393–94, 411, 415, 455
ER and, 351–52, 354, 366, 371–74, 376–77, 378–79, 449
FDR and, 271–72, 351, 373, 376–79, 387–91, 448–51, 453
as governor of New York, 351–52, 354, 429
presidential aspirations and campaign of, 271–72, 286, 346–47, 350, 366, 371–79
Smith, Emily, 363
Smith, Helena Huntington, 386, 428
Smith, Lillian, 7
Smith College, 292
Social Darwinism, 17, 70, 92, 144
Socialist Party, 242
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 27
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 179
Society of Nations, 343
Sohier, Alice, 133–34
Sonnets from the Portuguese (Browning), 154
Southern Women’s Democratic Organization, 423
Souvestre, Emile, 103
Souvestre, Marie, 30, 100–107, 109–25, 170, 248, 296, 401, 468
character and personality of, 104–6, 107, 112–15, 124, 399, 401
death of, 123, 163, 173
ER’s correspondence with, 120–23, 125, 130
ER’s relationship with, 4, 102, 106–7, 109–12, 114–16, 120–25, 128, 129, 137, 168, 171, 175–77, 231, 312, 327, 399
Soviet Union, 237, 238–39, 259–60
Spain, 17
Spanish-American War, 137
Special Committee on Propaganda, U.S. Senate, 344–45
Spring, Blanche, 178–79, 255, 309, 468
Spring-Rice, Lady, 206
Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil, 35–36, 51, 206, 236
Springwood, 133, 144, 181, 311, 325, 337
Stanford, Leland, 145n
State Charities Aid Association, 27
State Parks Council, N.Y., 390–91
Stephen, Leslie, 103
Stevens, Doris, 294, 357, 360
Stevenson, Adlai, 19
Stimson, Henry, 342
stock market crash of 1929, 415, 418, 420
Strachey, Elinor, 103
Strachey, Joan Pernel, 103, 104
Strachey, Lady (Jane Maria Grant), 103
Strachey, Lytton, 104
Strachey, Marjorie, 103, 104
Strachey, Philippa, 104
Straight, Dorothy Payne Whitney, 153n, 418n
Success Magazine, 381–82
Sullivan, “Big Tim,” 192, 193
Sullivan, Christy, 192, 193
Sullivan, Ed, 436
Supreme Court, U.S., 22, 214, 355
Swartz, Maud O’Farrell, 258, 321, 329, 339, 349
Swartz, Nelle, 321, 385, 392
Sweet, Thaddeus C., 242, 321, 322
Syracuse University, 319, 320
Taconic State Park Commission, 390–91
Taft, William Howard, 195
Tammany Hall, 189, 190–93, 272, 347
Tarbell, Ida, 195
Tasso, Torquato, 171
Teapot Dome scandal, 290, 352–54
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 99
“Ten Rules for Success in Marriage” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 442–45
Terry, Ed, 191
This I Remember (Eleanor Roosevelt), 431
Thomas, M. Carey, 343
Thompson, Malvina “Tommy,” 373, 410, 460, 466
Thoreau, Henry David, 402, 494
Times (London), 124, 261
Tivoli, N.Y., 24, 46–47, 53, 70, 76, 87, 89, 94–95, 101–2, 125–27, 249, 264
Todhunter, Winifred, 397
Todhunter School for Girls, 323, 332, 395–406, 409, 412, 472, 473, 474
Tomes, Miss, 70
Tomorrow Is Now (Eleanor Roosevelt), 6, 20
Tone, Aileen, 207
Tonnele and Hall, 23–24
Toombs, Henry, 327
Town Topics, 130, 131, 164, 169n, 218
Toynbee Hall, 134
Treaty of Versailles (1919), 238, 258, 260, 343
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 193–194
Tugwell, Rexford G., 456
Tully, Grace, 153, 373, 410–11, 447
Tuxedo Ball, 158
Twombly, Ruth, 96
United Charities, 27
United Nations, 2
ER as U.S. representative to, 17, 18, 359
University Settlement, 134, 289
Upton, Harriet, 275
Vaill, Patricia, 399
Val-Kill, 14, 296, 323–28, 332–37, 395, 431, 449–50
furniture factory at, 323, 325, 332, 399, 420, 465, 474
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 229n
Vanderbilt, Fred, 51
Vanderbilt, Gladys (Countess Széchényi), 134
Vanderlip, Frank A., 289–90
Vanderlip, Narcissa Cox, 288–92, 294, 296, 298, 302, 315, 339, 342, 345, 357, 362
Variety, 488
Vassar College, 332
Vaughn, Marjorie Bennett, 108, 119–20, 123, 173
Victoria, Queen of England, 12
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 190, 204, 212
Vireo, 308
Vogue, 427
Wadsworth, Alice Hay, 240
Wagner, Robert, 190, 192, 193, 194
Wald, Lillian, 9, 134, 212, 213, 239–40, 294, 339, 358
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Humphry Ward), 114–15, 124
War Industries Board, U.S., 222
Warm Springs, Ga., 229, 285, 314, 316, 332, 335–36, 376–77, 407, 409
Washington, George, 22, 25, 473
Washington Post, 253
Washington Times-Herald, 137, 221
“Was Miss Vedder an Adventuress?” (Elliott Roosevelt), 74–75
Waterbury, Larry, 52, 126, 151, 202
Ways to Peace (Lape), 344
Webb, Beatrice, 105, 124
Webb, Sidney, 124
Welfare Council, 406
Wellesley College, 293
Weona II, 314–15
Wharton, Edith, 44, 263
“What I Want Most Out of Life” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 381–82
“What the Country Expects of the Junior League in the Unemployment
Crisis” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 421–22
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 324
White, Stanford, 143, 245
White, Walter, 7
White, William Allen, 277, 343
Whitlock, Brand, 343
Whitney, Richard, 418n
Whitney, William C., 190
Williams, Charl, 349
William the Conqueror, 143
Wilson, Ellen Axson, 200, 204–5
Wilson, Woodrow, 196–200
background and early political career of, 196–97
death of, 341, 345
FDR’s political support of, 196–97, 198, 204, 272
presidency of, 199–200, 203–5, 211, 213–14, 233, 238–39, 242, 244, 250, 251, 258, 260–62, 265–66, 268, 270, 279, 280
Winslow, Harriet, 137
Winslow, Mary, 137
Winston, Owen, 166 “Wives of Great Men” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 424–25
Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World; IWW), 280–81
Woman Patriot, 240
Woman Patriot Corporation, 240
Woman’s Journal, 402
Woman’s Peace Party, 212, 214, 458 “Woman’s Shortcomings, A” (Browning), 140–41
Woman Suffrage Party, 195
Woman Voter, 195
“Women Are in Revolt,” 348
“Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 366–67, 370
Women’s Bureau, 290, 362
Women’s City Club, 288, 334, 339, 362–363, 365, 393
Women’s Democratic Law Enforcement League, 347
Women’s Democratic News, 243, 323–24, 382–85
ER as editor of, 331–32, 364–66
Women’s Division of the New York State Democratic Committee, 319–320, 322, 324, 339–40, 346, 411
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 343, 364
Women’s Joint Legislative Conference, 321
Women’s Roosevelt Memorial Association, 271
women’s suffrage movement, 195, 213–214, 237–38, 240, 274–75, 355–56
Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), 195, 243, 258, 321, 329, 339, 359, 361–62, 406, 418–19, 422
Women’s University Club, 389
Woolf, Leonard, 118, 259
Woolf, S. J., 370–71
Woolf, Virginia, 9, 10–11, 15, 103, 104–105, 118, 157
World Court, 3, 292, 303, 344, 346, 382, 452, 457
World Series, 461
World War I, 13, 211–16, 237, 239, 267, 458
World War II, 103, 390
Yale University, 139
You Learn by Living (Eleanor Roosevelt), 8, 255
Young, Annis Fuller, 399
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), 243, 321
Zabriskie, Josie, see Hall, Josie Zabriskie