In eight years the U. S. has had plenty of time to put together a lifelike picture of Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of the pieces were missingpart of the time Mrs. Roosevelt herself was missingbut the outlines were clear: an incredibly busy, indefatigable housekeeper who was forever scrubbing out dark corners of her domain, worrying over the welfare of the poor people across the tracks, clucking disapproval of dust in Oklahoma and mud tracked into the living room by soil erosion. Some citizens were annoyed, some were puzzled.
World War II quaked her world, as...
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