Upstairs at the Roosevelts : growing up with Franklin and Eleanor /
Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister, Eleanor, and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents' new home-the White House-Curtis played, learned, slept,...
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
2017.
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| ISBN: | 9781612349404 1612349404 9781612349428 1612349420 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. My Twelve Years in the White House; 2. Hyde Park, Our Family Home; 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt; 4. White House Pleasures of the Table; 5. FDR's Cocktail Hour, the High Point of the Day; 6. Eleanor Roosevelt's Book on Etiquette; 7. Security in and out of the White House; 8. Religion in Our Family; 9. Hostility of Eleanor Roosevelt toward Her Mother- in- Law; 10. Others in the White House Entourage; 11. The Chaste Eleanor Roosevelt; 12. "Hick," My Grandmother's Close Friend; 13. To Europe with My Grandmother.
- 14. Roosevelt as Commander in Chief15. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill; 16. The Effect of FDR's Death on the Roosevelt Family; 17. My Mother, the President's Daughter; Notes.