The Roosevelt Women: A Portrait in Five Generations

Description

The Roosevelt name brings up images of powerful presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal and disease. In this text, Betty Boyd Caroli gives the women of the Roosevelt clan their due. She weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs and interviews to chronicle nine Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history.