Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life Of Discovery By Russell Freedman

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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman discusses Eleanor Roosevelt’s experience being the First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, her struggles of conforming to the role of First Lady, and her impact on American women. Eleanor Roosevelt took a social risk. She wanted to keep her freedom and her achievements. She did not want to conform to the role of First Lady as she believed that being a First Lady would not allow her to have independence. That is a social risk because the nation's people could have rejected and hated her, but instead, they loved her. That is shown in paragraph 2 of the excerpt: “Proud of her accomplishments as a teacher, a writer, and a political power in her own right, she feared that she would