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Beasley, Maurine H., Holly C. Shulman, and Henry R. Beasley, eds. The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. 656 pp. $65.
Eleanor Roosevelt's complex life as a First Lady, humanitarian, diplomat, and activist personifies the changing role of women in twentieth-century society. Therefore, the work by the writers and editors of the Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopdia provides invaluable insight into her multiple interests and varied lifestyle and how her life affected both women's history and mass media history.
In the introduction, editors Maurine Beasley, Holly Schulman, and Henry Beasley note that the work is the first attempt to compile material about Roosevelt into one volume. More than 150 researchers, journalists, and professional writers contributed 237 entries that impart not only basic biographical information about her but also important facts about her contributions in six main areas: wife and mother,...