“Some of us have too much of this world’s goods… and we are thereby separated too widely from each other,” wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s three-volume biography. For Women’s History Month, Laura speaks to Cook about Eleanor – the First Lady of the World – and why her work still resonates. Plus, a documentary by filmmaker Ross Watne on Arthurdale, the experimental, government-funded community Roosevelt championed in Depression-era West Virginia.
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