BIOGRAPHIES
Jones, Victoria Garrett

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Courageous Spirit

(4) 4-6 Sterling Biographies series. Quick-paced chapters and well-chosen images of photos, paintings, documents, etc. (watch for Lincoln's business card), make for engaging, if mostly laudatory, biographies. Sidebars flesh out the historical contexts but, throughout, quotes aren't cited. Eleanor is the most compelling: readers get a real sense of this author/activist/First Lady's strong-willed personality. Kennedy and Franklin omit their alleged affairs, but Jefferson discusses Sally Hemings. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Sterling Biographies titles: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

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