CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Becoming First Lady

2: Public and Private Domains

3: ER’s Revenge: Henrietta Nesbltt, Head Housekeeper

4: Mobilizing the Women’s Network:

Friendships, Press Conferences, Patronage

5: ER’s New Deal for Women

6: Family Discord and the London Economic Conference

7: Private Times and Reports from Germany

8: Creating a New Community

9: The Quest for Racial Justice

10: The Crusade to End Lynching

11: Private Friendship, Public Time

12: Negotiating the Political Rapids

13: 1935: Promises and Compromises

14: The Victories of Summer, 1935

15: Mobilizing for New Action

16: A Silence Beyond Repair

17: Red Scare and Campaign Strategies, 1936

18: The Roosevelt Hearth, After Howe

19: The Election of 1936

20: Postelection Missions

21: Second Chance for the New Deal

22: 1937: To Build a New Movement

23: A First Lady’s Survival: Work and Run

24: This Is My Story

25: This Troubled World, 1938

26: Race Radicals, Youth and Hope

27: Storms on Every Front

Notes on Sources and Selected Bibliography

Sections of photographs follow pages 110 and 430.