Eleanor’s efforts to fight racism, white supremacy and Jim Crow in the United States were more successful. In December 1944, Cook suggests, Eleanor was the first American journalist to discuss Auschwitz. I guess that is plenty to go on for one’s aging years!”Cook shows Eleanor Roosevelt’s final years as triumphant. Yet the last part of the biography emphasizes the personage rather than the person. Winding up Eleanor’s majestic story in less than two pages, Cook doesn’t describe her death from tuberculosis on Nov. 7, 1962.

Source: New York Times November 14, 2016 05:04 UTC