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Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography

Author : Harold Ivan Smith
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611647975
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography written by Harold Ivan Smith and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty years after her death, Eleanor Roosevelt is remembered as a formidable first lady and tireless social activist. Often overlooked, however, is her deep and inclusive spirituality. Her personal faith was shaped by reading the New Testament in her youth, giving her a Jesus-centered spirituality that fueled her commitment to civil rights, women's rights, and the rights of all “little peopleâ€ marginalized in American society. She took seriously Jesus' words and despite her life of privilege, she made the needs of those on the margins her priority. Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography provides insight into one of America's most famous women, particularly the spiritual influences that made her so active in social justice issues.

Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography

Author : Michael G. Long
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography written by Michael G. Long and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement. Marked by sacrifice and service, inclusiveness and hope, Robinson's faith shaped not only his character but also baseball and America itself.

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062355929
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War. A champion of the downtrodden, Eleanor drew on her experience and used her role as First Lady to help those in need. Intimately involved in her husband’s political life, from the governorship of New York to the White House, Eleanor would eventually become a powerful force of her own, heading women’s organizations and youth movements, and battling for consumer rights, civil rights, and improved housing. In the years after FDR’s death, this inspiring, controversial, and outspoken leader would become a U.N. Delegate, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a newspaper columnist, Democratic party activist, world-traveler, and diplomat devoted to the ideas of liberty and human rights. This single volume biography brings her into focus through her own words, illuminating the vanished world she grew up, her life with her political husband, and the post-war years when she worked to broaden cooperation and understanding at home and abroad. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos.

You Learn by Living

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664244941
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book You Learn by Living written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was born before women had the right to vote yet went on to become one of America'¿¿s most influential First Ladies. A Gallup poll named her one of the most admired people of the twentieth century and she remains well known as a role model for a life well lived. Roosevelt wrote You Learn by Living at the age of seventy-six, just two years before her death. The commonsense ideas'¿¿and heartfelt ideals'¿¿presented in this volume are as relevant today as they were five decades ago. Her keys to a fulfilling life? Some of her responses include: learning to learn, the art of maturity, and getting the best out of others.

Eleanor

Author : David Michaelis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439192049
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor written by David Michaelis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a breakthrough portrait of America's longest-serving first lady that covers her major contributions throughout critical historical events and her essential role in advancing international human rights.

No Ordinary Time

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476750572
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Time written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a social history of the United States in 1940, along with a moment-by-moment account of Roosevelt's leadership and the private lives of the president and First Lady, whose remarkable partnership transformed America. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

A Christian and a Democrat

Author : John F. Woolverton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467457485
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book A Christian and a Democrat written by John F. Woolverton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.” This is the story of how the first informed the second—how his upbringing in the Episcopal Church and matriculation at the Groton School under legendary educator and minister Endicott Peabody molded Roosevelt into a leader whose politics were fundamentally shaped by the Social Gospel. A work begun by religious historian John Woolverton (1926 2014) and recently completed by James Bratt, A Christian and a Democrat is an engaging analysis of the surprisingly spiritual life of one of the most consequential presidents in US history. Reading Woolverton’s account of FDR’s response to the toxic demagoguery of his day will reassure readers today that a constructive way forward is possible for Christians, for Americans, and for the world.

The Women of Hull House

Author : Eleanor J. Stebner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791434871
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Women of Hull House written by Eleanor J. Stebner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This group biography explores the lives, work, and personal relations of nine white, middle- and upper-middle-class women who were involved in the first decade of Chicago's premier social settlement. This "galaxy of stars"--as they were called in their own day--were active in innumerable political, social, and religious reform efforts. The Women of Hull House refutes the humanistic interpretation of the social settlement movement. Its spiritual base is highlighted as the author describes it as the practical/ethical side of the social gospel movement and as an attempt to transform late nineteenth-century evangelical and doctrinal Christian religion. While the women of Hull House differed from one another in their theological beliefs and were often critical of orthodox Christianity, they were motivated by Christian ideals. By showing the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship, the author argues that individual actions for social changes must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints.

Morning Has Broken

Author : Annabel Farjeon
Publisher : J. MacRae Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Morning Has Broken written by Annabel Farjeon and published by J. MacRae Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the song which celebrates the beauty and elation of the newly breaking morning. -- Provided by publisher.

Eleanor's Story

Author : Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1561456810
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor's Story written by Eleanor Ramrath Garner and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing coming-of-age autobiography of a young American caught in Nazi Germany during World War II. During the Great Depression, when Eleanor is nine, her family moves from her beloved America to Germany, from which her parents had emigrated years before and where her father has been offered a job he cannot pass up. But when war suddenly breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, they realize returning to the United States isn't an option. They arrive in Berlin as enemy aliens. Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She and her brother are enrolled in German schools and in Hitler's Youth (a requirement). She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy. This compelling story is heart-racing at times and immerses readers in a first-hand account of Nazi Germany, surviving World War II as a civilian, and immigration.

The Moral Basis of Democracy

Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497663652
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Basis of Democracy written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens from the most influential first lady in American history. With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual responsibility to other citizens. Roosevelt then calls on all Americans, especially the youth, to prioritize the well-being of others and have faith that their fellow citizens will protect them in return. She defines this trust between people as a trait of true democracy. Roosevelt advances an optimistic model for the democracy of the future, and although we’ve taken some steps in the direction of her vision, it’s still a long way from reality. The issues first addressed in this 1940 essay—namely financial inequality and racial discrimination—are sadly still relevant today, as bigotry continues to undermine our national unity. Her first publication as first lady, The Moral Basis of Democracy is an honest and heartfelt call for all Americans to choose love and faith over hatred and fear. Roosevelt takes an inspiring stance in defense of democracy, progress, and morality; the wisdom imparted here is timeless, and a must-read for every American. This edition features a foreword by Rev. Carol Howard Merritt, an introduction by Roosevelt historian Allida Black, PhD, and an illustrated biography of Eleanor Roosevelt including images from the author’s estate.

Pioneer Spirit

Author : Mary Ellen Doyle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171318
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Spirit written by Mary Ellen Doyle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Catherine Spalding (1793?1858) was the cofounder and first leader of one of the most significant American religious communities for women?the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Spalding also founded several educational institutions, Louisville's first private hospital, and the first social service agencies for children in Kentucky. In 2003, the Louisville Courier-Journal selected Spalding as the sole woman among the sixteen most important persons in Louisville's history. Pioneer Spirit is the first biography of Spalding, who, from the age of nineteen, served the citizens of the Kentucky frontier. By the time of her death, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth extended far beyond Bardstown, Kentucky, to over one hundred sisters in sixteen convents. Spalding's legacy of service continues today with more than six hundred members worldwide.

Testosterone

Author : Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674242653
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Testosterone written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner A Progressive Book of the Year A TechCrunch Favorite Read of the Year “Deeply researched and thoughtful.” —Nature “An extended exercise in myth busting.” —Outside “A critique of both popular and scientific understandings of the hormone, and how they have been used to explain, or even defend, inequalities of power.” —The Observer Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready culprit for everything from stock market crashes to the overrepresentation of men in prisons. But your testosterone level doesn’t actually predict your appetite for risk, sex drive, or athletic prowess. It isn’t the biological essence of manliness—in fact, it isn’t even a male sex hormone. So what is it, and how did we come to endow it with such superhuman powers? T’s story begins when scientists first went looking for the chemical essence of masculinity. Over time, it provided a handy rationale for countless behaviors—from the boorish to the enviable. Testosterone focuses on what T does in six domains: reproduction, aggression, risk-taking, power, sports, and parenting, addressing heated debates like whether high-testosterone athletes have a natural advantage as well as disagreements over what it means to be a man or woman. “This subtle, important book forces rethinking not just about one particular hormone but about the way the scientific process is embedded in social context.” —Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Behave “A beautifully written and important book. The authors present strong and persuasive arguments that demythologize and defetishize T as a molecule containing quasi-magical properties, or as exclusively related to masculinity and males.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Provides fruitful ground for understanding what it means to be human, not as isolated physical bodies but as dynamic social beings.” —Science

Everyday Spirituality

Author : James Hazelwood
Publisher : James Hazelwood
ISBN 13 : 9781733388603
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Spirituality written by James Hazelwood and published by James Hazelwood. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated with traditional approaches to spirituality? Feeling guilty about not following a regimented devotional practice? Wishing there were a way you could embrace God in your everyday life? This book offers a way forward. Rather than prescribe another attempt at daily devotional readings, written prayers and scheduled moments of quiet meditation, Everyday Spirituality expresses the truth that much of what we already do in life is, in fact, spiritual. · Walking· Cooking· Laughing· Sleeping· Moving· Spending· . This book is an accessible introduction to an ancient yet new way of thinking and being in the world. Rather than dividing spiritual life apart from daily life, Everyday Spirituality helps the reader realize that they do as connected to God, the sacred, the holy.

Reverend Addie Wyatt

Author : Marcia Walker-McWilliams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209896X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Reverend Addie Wyatt written by Marcia Walker-McWilliams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. Marcia Walker-McWilliams tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces.

The Fetus Chronicles

Author : Eleanor L. Tomczyk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544749792
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Fetus Chronicles written by Eleanor L. Tomczyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Fetus Chronicles, writer and humorist Eleanor L. Tomczyk completes the trilogy she started with Monsters' Throwdown and Fleeing Oz. Her latest book shares deep insights and absurdly hilarious moments Tomczyk has collected from her life. She presents her unique humor and perspective through a fantastic conceit: podcasts to her unborn self. Tomczyk's voice and cutting commentary travel back through the decades and into the womb. She's here to tell her baby self all the things she should know about the world and all the lessons she will learn. Eleanor L. Tomczyk advises her fetus self on everything from the dangers of douching to the use of words as deadly weapons. Special podcast guest stars range from Tomczyk's Aunt Lily-"Church Lady Extraordinaire"-to her own eyes and other body parts. When her children follow the "Little Barbarian Manifesto," and her own organs start reminding her about the passing of time, all the reader can do is laugh out loud. Ms. Tomczyk speaks to her past self as a Black woman, a proud (if sometimes out-of-her-depth) mother, a wise teacher, a jaded baby boomer, and the many other identities she has adopted during her storied life.

My Year with Eleanor

Author : Noelle Hancock
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062092138
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book My Year with Eleanor written by Noelle Hancock and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I honestly loved this book.” —Jim Norton, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Your Guts “Eleanor taught Noelle that, first and foremost, Courage Takes Practice. Her yearlong quest to face her terrors, great and small, is moving, enriching, and hilarious—we readers are lucky to be along for the ride.” —Julie Powell, bestselling author of Julie & Julia In the tradition of My Year of Living Biblically and Eat Pray Love comes My Year with Eleanor, Noelle Hancock’s hilarious tale of her decision to heed the advice of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and do one thing a day that scares her in the year before her 30th birthday. Fans of Sloane Crosley and Chelsea Handler will absolutely adore Hancock’s charming and outrageous chronicle of her courageous endeavor and delight in her poignant and inspiring personal growth.