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I’m knee deep in an extremely detailed and comprehensive biography of a fascinating First Lady.
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How detailed and comprehensive you ask?
698 pages worth. It weighs a ton!
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While I don’t usually read biographies, this tome has enough action, scandal, politics, intrigue, and history to satisfy fans of any genre.
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I thought I knew a lot about Nell.
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I was wrong.
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River's world..... 
Hers is an interesting story.
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I’m learning so much. Not only about her, but the era in general.
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She was actually quite the beautiful young lady.
However she didn’t age well.
But what a woman…..
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One of the oddest thing I’ve learned? People who met her in person often said, she’s not that ugly. Cameras apparently hated her.
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apparently
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A competent woman who lived in interesting times…
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But enough about me. What do you have to say about Eleanor…?
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Ohhh, thanks for the book recommendation River. I love biographies of interesting people, I really never thought of Elanor Roosevelt an interesting read, but now I’m going to put this on my Amazon book list!
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It’s a little long winded… and hard to start. But once you’re in and committed? Fascinating.
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What she did with the United Nations was quite an accomplishment.
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From reading this book? I’ve realized my life has been one long slack..
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I find it funny that her affair was kept a lot quieter than Franklin’s!!
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Affairs, plural.
Read the book!
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Sounds like a good read. I’m reading a biography about Alice Paul and her battle to get us the vote . . . after having just finished another biography about her efforts to sway Woodrow Wilson to the cause of women’s rights.
Alice was just a year younger than Eleanor, but far more anonymous not having been married to the President.
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And niece to a President, yes.
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OOH! I took a photo of this so I don’t forget. Did you watch the PBS series on the Roosevelts? I was so excited to watch it and yet, I found it so dull I fell asleep too often and never finished it.
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I did watch it. And stayed awake the whole time!
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Role model!
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