Word: lashing
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...Eleanor: The Years Alone, Lash...
Watson (9) 10-Eleanor: The Years Alone, Lash...
Like its subject, it was a doughty, intelligent, enormously likable book. The new volume is in some ways even better since Lash has been much more selective in his use of detail. But in a crucial way. The Years Alone is less interesting. It features the same sturdy central character, but how one misses that old supporting cast! Gone is the gallery of flamboyant Roosevelt drunks to predictably early graves. The martinet mother-in-law is dead too, and even Cousin Alice Longworth's acid tongue is inexplicably silent, though she is still alive. Most sorely missed...
...knack of simultaneously joining the battle and remaining above it. She needed to, if only to survive her sons' destructive political forays. In 1948 Elliott's tenacious effort to draft Eisenhower for the Democrats discomfited his mother as well as President Truman and the general. Lash sums up the situation in 1952 with one terse sentence: "Not only was James for Kefauver and Franklin Jr. Harriman's campaign manager, but Elliott and John had come out for Eisenhower" (who was by then the Republican candidate...
...spiritual son was Adlai Stevenson. His idealism and wit rejuvenated her and, as Lash points out, she was flattered by his dependence on her. Yet she came to regard her dramatic pro-Stevenson stand at the 1960 convention as a mistake since it hurt his chance to be Secretary of State. It also dissipated her own power and as Lash notes: "She cared about her influence...