Last an hour. Leslie will be staying for a book signing and will sign her book right here. This is a great mothers day gift everyone. I am already signed up for three books she is going to sign. Get your books. They will be on sale in our museum store kiosk which will be just near the walters book signing table. I would just hand the book off. Also, Geoffrey Ward will have his book on the roosevelts and another book, so he will be here as well. To begin, we are so glad to welcome Geoffrey Ward back to new york historical, the author of 18 books, one winner of the National Book critics circle award and the society of american historian. A long time collaborator with ken burns he has won seven emmys and written 32 historical documentaries and he is 33 years old. [laughter] either on his own or in collaboration with others, including the roosevelts, an intimate history which is why he is here today. We are always so thrilled to welcome leslie. She has been with us so many times. She lives
We look back at the natural and historic measures. We take you to National Park Service Across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, we are live at the National Parks services most visited home at arlington memorial cemetery. Join us with your phone calls as we talk to robert stanson. Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service, live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. This week on the presidency, a conversation with author Geoffrey Ward of the documentary of roosevelts. He spoke with our correspondence lesley stall and her relationship with her son and her many grandchildren. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Todays program, grandmother, the roosevelts is apart of the bernard and irish distinguished series and i would like to thank there shorts for his support and near historical, lets give mr. Shorts a hand. [ applause ] the program this morning will last an hour in collicluding q
Heres this golden person and then they turn out not to be golden. And most of us deal with that better than she did. They reject her. They reject her and of course they reject her because shes rejectable. There are pictures of her in this book when she was young when she was seeing franklin in the beginning. Shes beautiful. She was. She was beautiful. She didnt know it. She didnt think she was. And of course pictures we see of her shes not. She was. Thats something that surprised me. Were going to invite you all to come up to the microphones in the aisles and ask questions and while were setting up for that, let me ask you one final from me. As you delved into the personal relationships of the Franklin Delano roosevelt wing, whats the Biggest Surprise for you . When we did this . Whats the latest surprise you came upon in the relationships . I guess my theory was that Theodore Roosevelt was terribly important in the lives of both eleanor, who was his niece, and franklin. And that was j
Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, in a wpa and the like, workers progress, get employment back up, jobs, jobs, jobs. Mr. Slen allida black, in that first 100 days, what was Eleanor Roosevelt doing . And how she define her role . Ms. Black well, eleanor struggled to define here role because she was exceedingly active before she went into the white house. She was a party operative. He edited basically all of the National Democratic
Peter and youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And were going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun