Author : Geraldine Hawkins
Publisher : Black Dome Press
ISBN 13 : 9781883789848
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)
Book Synopsis Elliott and Eleanor Roosevelt by : Geraldine Hawkins
Download or read book Elliott and Eleanor Roosevelt written by Geraldine Hawkins and published by Black Dome Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-length illustrated biography of Elliott Roosevelt (1860-1894), brother to President Theodore Roosevelt and father to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, with extensive background information on the ancestors and extended family of Theodore and Elliott and the relationship between Elliott and the young Eleanor, who was left an orphan at age 10 when her father died at age 34. The book charts Elliott's happy early years growing up in one of the foremost and most respected families in New York City, through his late teens and early twenties as he traveled extensively through the still-wild American West, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia, his marriage to Anna Hall and their early years together as favorites among New York City society, the birth of his children, and then his precipitous decline into severe alcoholism and depression, estrangement from his family, attempts at recovery, and final tragic days following the death of first his wife, then his youngest son, and the collapse of his promising business enterprise, leading him to suicidal despair--but all the while, somehow, remaining a loving (and loved) father to Eleanor.