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Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
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February, 1999
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Preface, by by Blanche Weisen Cook
Introduction
Part I. The New Deal Years: 1933--1940
1. The State's Responsibility for Fair Working Conditions
2. I Want You to Write to Me
3. Old Age Pensions
4. Subsistence Farmsteads
5. The New Governmental Interest in the Arts: A Speech before the Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Artists
6. In Defense of Curiosity
7. The Negro and Social Change
8. Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness?
9. Married Persons Clause of the Economy Act
10. The Southern Conference on Human Welfare
11. ER to Lorena HickokHenry Grady Hotel Atlanta
12. Marian Anderson and the Daughters of the American Revolution
13. The Federal Theater Project
14. Women Politics, and Policy
15. The Works Progress Administration
16. The Moral Basis of Democracy
17. Women in Politics
18. Insuring Democracy
19. Helping Them to Help Themselves
Part II. The Threat of War: 1935--1945
1. "Because the War Idea Is Obsolete''
2. "This Troubled World''
3. Cash and Carry
4. The Invasion of Poland
5. Wartime Sacrifice
6. Should There Be A Referendum on War?
7. The Bombing of Britain
8. Pearl Harbor
9. The Nazi Camps
10. The Holocaust
11. D-Day
12. D-Day, by Continued
13. Conscientious Objectors
14. Total War
15. Equal Justice for All
16. The Atomic Bomb
Part III. The Home Front: 1939--1945
1. "Keepers of Democracy''
2. "Intolerance''
3. "Why I Still Believe in the Youth Congress''
4. "Civil Liberties--The Individual and the Community''
5. "Social Gains and Defense''
6. "Race Religion and Prejudice''
7. "Must We Hate to Fight?''
8. "Freedom: Promise or Fact''
9. "Abolish Jim Crow!''
10. "A Challenge to American Sportsmanship''
11. "Henry A. Wallace's "Democracy Reborn''
12. FDR's Death
Part IV. The United Nations and Human Rights: 1945--1953
1. "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights''
2. "The Promise of Human Rights''
3. "Statement on Draft Covenant on Human Rights''
4. "Reply to Attacks on U.S. Attitude Toward Human Rights Covenant''
5. "UN: Good U.S. Investment''
6. "The Universal Validity of Man's Right to Self-Determination''
7. "U.N. Deliberations on Draft Convention on the Political Rights of Women''
8. "Eisenhower Administration Rejects Treaty''
9. ER's Response
Part V. The Cold War Abroad: 1945--1963
1. Revisiting Yalta
2. "The Russians Are Tough''
3. The Korean War
4. Truman's Dismissal of MacArthur
5. China and the Korean War
6. "First Need: Resettlement''
7. "The Changing India''
8. "Soviet Attacks on Social Conditions in U.S.''
9. "Why Are We Cooperating with Tito?''
10. Tensions in the Middle East
11. "What Are We For?''
12. The Bay of Pigs and the Congo
13. "What Has Happened to the American Dream?''
Part VI. The Cold War at Home: 1945--1963
1. Full Employment
2. Price Controls and Postwar Production
3. "Why I Do Not Choose to Run''
4. Loyalty Oaths
5. Taft-Hartley Act
6. Correspondence Regarding the Above Column
7. House Committee on Un-American Activities
8. "Plain Talk About Wallace''
9. "Liberals in This Year of Decision''
10. Dispute with Francis Cardinal Spellman
11. Correspondence Regarding the Above Column
12. Address to Americans for Democratic Action
13. "If I Were a Republican Today''
14. Senator Joseph McCarthy
15. Alger Hiss
16. "Social Responsibility for Individual Welfare'
17. Stevenson Campaign Address
18. Segregation in the South
19. The Smith Act
20. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
21. Stevenson on the Civil Rights Bill
22. Correspondence with Lyndon Johnson Regardomg the Above Column
23. "Ike--`Nice Man Poor Leader';Nixon--`Anything to Get Elected' ''
24. "Why I Am Opposed to `Right to Work' Laws''
25. Statement on Behalf of the National Consumers League
26. Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of 1960
27. Stevenson, Kennedy and the 1960 Democratic Convention
28. Campaigning for Kennedy
29. Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
30. "The Social Revolution''