American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
      • Abbreviations
    • The Congregationalists >
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      • Bibliographic Dictionary of Leaders
    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
      • The Legacy
      • Growing Up
      • Eleanor and Franklin
      • A Politician's Wife
      • Grief
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      • The Democratic Crusade
      • On Her Own
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Study Questions


1.  Franklin Roosevelt's polio influenced the course of his life and of Eleanor's.  Francis Perkins said that being crippled gave Franklin "humility of spirit and a deeper philosophy."  What evidence do you see in this chapter to support this statement?  

2.  Her husband's polio required Eleanor to be more active and self-reliant as a parent.  What are some examples of the new domestic roles she filled and talents she developed?  

3.  During the 1920s Eleanor Roosevelt also became much more active in public life.  What was her role in the Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League, the Val-Kill furniture factory, and the Todhunter School?

4.  With these activities Eleanor began to develop a political philosophy and a set of positions on important policy issues of her time.  What was her position on the World Court, child labor, and women playing roles in public life?  What did she think of women who held that public life was properly a sphere for men only? 

5.  Eleanor Roosevelt also came into contact with other women who were active in the world.  Who were these women and what values did they share with Eleanor?  

6.  In 1928 Franklin Roosevelt reentered politics.  How did the events of that year affect the fortunes of his friend Al Smith and Franklin himself?  What did Eleanor fear she would lose in becoming the First lady of New York?  

7.  How did Eleanor and Franklin function as partners-both domestically and politically-during his tenure as governor of New York?  How accurately did Eleanor characterize their marriage int he interview published at that time, "What Is a Wife's Job Today?" 

8.  How did Eleanor Roosevelt experience the possibility of becoming the First Lady of the land?  Why was she so apprehensive about the prospect?  
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