I'm excited about this...very timely given the upcoming election!

OK, I'm about half-way through now...I've discovered that Eleanor was a daily columnist. She wrote a column a day/six days week for many years. That's the problem with this book: she turns each event into a folksy "here's the deal" column. Meeting Kings and Queens or FDR's relationship with Churchill are all reported the same way - she finds one cute anecdote and focuses on that, and the book misses out on so much "meat" along the way. The only reason I keep going is because I know her life and FDR's were filled with so many incredible events - but I hate how they're reported!

Seriously, in one page Eleanor devoted a short paragraph each to rumors of FDR's strokes in office, the death of his (mistress?) Margerite LeHand, General DeGaulle's visit, an extraordinary female civil rights leader and the rumor that FDR sent a destroyer to pick up his dog who was left behind on a Pacific island they had visited. Time to put this book down....