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Bedtime Biography: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiography chronicles her journey from shy aristocrat to "First Lady of the World." Called "the woman who comforted the distressed and distressed the comfortable," her advocacy shaped human rights globally. What personal tragedy transformed her into history's most influential First Lady?

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When Fear Becomes the Beginning, Not the End

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At age eight, Eleanor Roosevelt stood at her mother's deathbed, already acquainted with a loneliness that would have broken most children. Two years later, her beloved father-the one person who made her feel cherished-was also gone. Left in the care of a stern grandmother in a house where children were seen but not heard, she developed what she called a "perpetual fear"-of darkness, of displeasing others, of her own inadequacy. Yet this frightened child would become the woman who stared down Soviet diplomats, championed civil rights when it threatened her husband's presidency, and helped write the moral blueprint for the modern world. How does a girl paralyzed by fear transform into a woman of unshakable courage? The answer lies not in conquering fear, but in learning to act despite it.

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The Education of an Unlikely Rebel

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The Marriage That Broke and Remade Her

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Revolutionizing Power from an Impossible Position

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The Unexpected Chapter: Building a Better World

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The Dream That Crosses Borders

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What One Life Can Mean

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