New Releases by Eleanor Roosevelt

A selection of the best of Eleanor Roosevelt''s newspaper columns describing her day-to-day activities.

A selection of Mrs. Roosevelt''s newspaper columns that provides a look at her social and political life and a first-hand look at the events that changed the world.

Set in occuppied Netherlands, the First Lady tells the story of simple faith overcoming evil

She was born before women had the right to vote yet went on to become one of America''¿¿s most influential First Ladies. A Gallup poll named her one of the most admired people of the twentieth century and she remains well known as a role model for a life well lived. Roosevelt wrote You Learn by Living at the age of seventy-six, just two years before her death. The commonsense ideas''¿¿and heartfelt ideals''¿¿presented in this volume are as relevant today as they were five decades ago. Her keys to a fulfilling life? Some of her responses include: learning to learn, the art of maturity, and getting the best out of others.

A "memoir of Mrs. Roosevelt''s teen-age years, in which she recalls some of the problems that she faced (shyness, for example) and the ways in which she, sometime with the help of sympathetic elders, overcame them."-Publishers'' Weekly.

One of the world''s best-loved and most-admired human beings, writing out of her own experience, has set down her basic philosophy of life in this book.

Dinner menu contains the pencil autograph of Eleanor Roosevelt for donor, L. Edwin Brown, when he waited on her in the Gilpin Room, Nittany Lion Inn, The Pennsylvania State University, on 7 October 1953. Brown underlined in pencil the items chosen by Mrs. Roosevelt for dinner. The four-page menu features a line drawing of the Inn by Milton S. Osborne on the cover, a two-page dinner menu of items and their prices, and a short history of the university on the last page of the "souvenir menu" which a diner could address and the inn would mail.

This is the first book to tell the dramatic story of the United Nations in action for and with the youth of the world. Here is not the formal account of the accomplishments of specific committees, but rather the warm, human stories of those who have shared in the work of these many specialized agencies of the UN. In these unforgettable stories and pictures that have come from more than thirty-five countries-firsthand accounts sent back by UN teams everywhere-UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, FAO, IRO take on lasting meaning as symbols of the UN at work.

Covers the years from 1920 to Roosevelt''s death in the spring of 1945.