Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

Russell Freedman

Mar 2008 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Barbara Caruso

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3 hr 39 min

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1994 Newbery Honor Book • Library of Congress Children's Books • Jane Addams Book Award Honor Book • Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts (NCTE) • Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) • Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award • Golden Kite Award • Publishers Weekly Best Book • School Library Journal Best Book • Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books) • ALA Notable Children's Book • New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age• Boston Globe/Horn Book Award • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Illinois) • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (Vermont) • Not Just for Children Anymore! (Children's Book Council) • Horn Book Fanfare

The intriguing story of Eleanor Roosevelt traces the life of the former First Lady from her early childhood through the tumultuous years in the White House to her active role in the founding of the United Nations after World War II.

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Russell Freedman was born in San Francisco, California on October 11, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. After college, he served in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps during the Korean War. After his military service, he became a reporter and editor with the Associated Press. In 1956, he took a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he did publicity writing for television. In 1965, he became a full-time writer. His first book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. He went on to publish more than 60 nonfiction titles for young readers including Immigrant Kids, Cowboys of the Old West, Indian Chiefs, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, Confucius: The Golden Rule, Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America, Vietnam: A History of the War, and The Sinking of the Vasa. He received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography and three Newbery Honors for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. He also received the Regina Medal, the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award, the Orbis Pictus Award, the Sibert Medal, a Sibert Honor, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the National Humanities Medal. He died on March 16, 2018 at the age of 88.

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