![]() She sought out the weak, deprived, the sensitive and wounded, the physically and emotionally needy and acted as their supporter and nurturer. The commentary comprises the bulk of the book - the letters figuring more as stones in an intricate setting - and the effect of commentary, choice of letters, and title is to produce a picture of an individual desperate to bestow love.ĭeprived of love and necessary parental attention at an early age, Lash implies, Eleanor Roosevelt never managed to love herself. The new volume, though, covers these events from a new point of view - Eleanor's (as candidly or not as she wished) in her letters - with commentary provided by Lash to fill us in on biographical data and relationships and occasionally offer his personal explanation or interpretation of potentially scandalous or confusing missives. Souvestre the courtship of Eleanor and FDR Franklin's love affair with Lucy Mercer the years in the White House. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lash is the author of several well-known works on Eleanor Roosevelt, most notably, ''Eleanor and Franklin.'' The first half of this new volume covers much of the ground of that earlier one: Eleanor's childhood relations with her mother and father her schooling in England under the supervision of Mlle. ![]()
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