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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller--Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In his extraordinary biography of the major political couple of the twentieth century, Joseph P. Lash reconstructs from Eleanor Roosevelt's personal papers her early life and four-decade marriage to the four-time president who brought America back from the Great Depression and helped to win World War II. The result is an intimate look at the vibrant private and public worlds of two incomparable people.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A biography in the grand manner. Extraordinarily readable...Splendidly written from start to finish.--Richard Rover "Chicago Tribune"<br><br>An exceptionally candid...heartrending book.-- "The New Yorker"<br><br>Here is one of the great and moving stories of our time--a masterpiece of vivid evocation and sympathetic understanding. 'Monumental.'-- "New York Times"<br><br>So engrossing and complex that it reads like a work of fiction.--Jean Stafford "Vogue"<br><br>Wholly absorbing and richly documented.--Marya Mannes "The Atlantic"<br><br>A beautiful book--beautiful in its scholarship, insight, objectivity and candor...immense subtlety, sensibility and honesty.--Arthur Schlesinger<br>

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