Eleanor / Gray Jacobik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobik, Gray, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Notable voices

Notable voices series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.

Presidents' spouses.

Political and social views.

Friends and associates.

Families.

United States.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Family--Poetry.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Friends and associates--Poetry.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Political and social views--Poetry.

Presidents' spouses--United States--Poetry.

Friendship.

Genre:

Biographical poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 131 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Fort Lee, New Jersey : CavanKerry Press, 2020.

Contents:

1 I was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt p. 3

Substitutes & Servants

2 The first servant I remember p. 7

3 Our laundress at Tivoli was quite Madeleine's p. 8

4 A nurse who attended my children, Blanche p. 9

5 To his lasting humiliation, my Grandfather Roosevelt p. 11

6 I was married before I was told that a maid p. 12

7 I cannot now remember the name p. 13

8 When Franklin was appointed p. 14

9 When one has servants, you never forget p. 16

10 Sometimes from a train or car window p. 18

Allenswood

11 The education I received p. 23

12 Here was Mademoiselle Souvestre: her brilliant talk p. 24

Marriage & Family

13 A few years after Franklin and I married p. 31

14 Our third child was born in my fourth p. 33

15 My mother-in-law furnished our house p. 35

Betrayal

16 Shipboard from Great Britain to New York p. 39

17 I was alone on my thirty-fifth birthday p. 47

18 There was that messy business p. 49

19 When Franklin became ill, he was struck first p. 52

20 I do not advocate the way Franklin handles p. 55

21 The day I drove her from Hyde Park p. 56

Friends & Lovers

22 Brilliant blue-sky days and deep green pines- p. 61

23 If I was going to inspect institutions p. 63

24 I was at war with myself for the visions of Earl's p. 64

25 Earl touched my body p. 65

26 Franklin would succeed in the election p. 66

27 Earl's love forced me to overcome the barrier p. 68

28 Earl and I were Lady and Knight Errant p. 69

29 She's all yours, Hickok. Have fun! p. 70

30 Hick was glorious company and now p. 72

31 Ares sent the Depression then War; Eros, Passion; p. 74

32 Years later, when Lorena and I would take p. 75

33 During the 1932 campaign, although Hick ought not p. 77

34 Sometimes, beside David on a plane or in a car p. 78

35 Once, in 1948, David and I had two days in Zurich p. 79

36 Before I bore six children, I cut quite the figure p. 80

37 The truth is never wholly palatable: David is p. 81

38 Should Fate ever permit me to choose just one p. 82

A Politician's Wife / First Lady

39 I have known only a few very happy marriages p. 85

40 When I think of those months p. 86

41 As we were leaving Albany to fly to Chicago p. 88

42 Visible from the small window of the plane p. 90

43 Political expediency and gallant affability p. 92

44 I was in California and could not attend Marian p. 93

45 Painful for me, at times, to be so delicately p. 95

46 That frightful clanging- p. 97

47 In 1939, when the MS St. Louis p. 99

48 I'd cringe inwardly when I'd hear Franklin p. 100

49 Slowly, along the eight hundred miles p. 101

After the White House

50 Who was I if not Franklin's p. 109

51 The fate of war refugees was an issue I cared p. 110

52 Once, when I chaired the Commission p. 113

53 Hollywood made a movie about Fala, and he was p. 115

54 Aboard the Tuscaloosa once in the West Indies p. 116

55 Finding myself First Lady of the State p. 117

56 I turn over the word horror- p. 118

57 When I was a young girl p. 119

58 When I look back over my life p. 123.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781933880754

1933880759

OCLC:

1112904266

Publisher Number:

99984133866