Franklin Delano Roosevelt rarely mentioned his wife’s political influence or gave her credit for a job well done. But, according to historian Blanche Wiesen Cook, little of significance was achieved without her input, and her vision shaped the best of his presidency. The first of Cook’s projected three-volume biography, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, 1884
Valiant Women is a vital and engrossing attempt to correct the record and rightfully celebrate the achievements of female veterans of World War II.
