The third and final volume of Blanche Wiesen Cooks's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt takes us through World War II, FDR's death, the founding of the UN, and her death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues -- economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. These years -- the war years -- made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDR's death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations.

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Introduction: "Lady Great Heart" -- "We all go ahead together, or we all go down together" -- "You cannot just sit and talk about it, you have to do something" -- Tea and hot dogs: The royal visit -- "We must think of the greatest good for the greatest number" -- "If they perish, we perish sooner or later" -- "We have to fight with our minds" -- Red Scare, refugees, and racism -- The politician and the agitator: New beginnings -- Radical youth and refugees: Winter-spring 1940 -- "When you go to war, you cease to solve the problems of peace": March-June 1940 -- "If democracy is to survive, it must be because it meets the needs of the people" -- "The world rightly belongs to those who really care": The convention of 1940 -- War and the moral basis of democracy -- "Defense is not a matter of what you get, but of what you give" -- "Heroism is always a thrilling thing": The politics of race -- "Isolationism is impossible": The politics of rescue -- "To know me is a terrible thing": Friendship, loyalties, and alliances -- "Golden footprints": A permanent bond in war and peace -- "The white heron of the one flight": Travels in the Pacific and beyond -- ER's legacy: Human rights.