Word: rooseveltiana
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...even the most casual reader of Rooseveltiana knows, Eleanor's life was full of woe. Her beloved father, a problem drinker, died young, and early death claimed her mother and brother as well. She grew up shy and lonely, self-conscious about her plain looks...
...acre estate with 23-room mansion on Campobello Island, off Canada's New Brunswick coast, long the summer home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was put up for sale in national magazine ads. Price: "$50,000 with original furnishings; $75,000 with Hyde Park items." Among the Rooseveltiana: "Museum-caliber collector's items [such as] F.D.R.'s Cabinet meeting chair, childhood drawings." Biggest inducement to a commercial-minded purchaser: "Unexcelled opportunity to create a self-supporting memorial museum...
...flood of Rooseveltiana, already building the F.D.R. legend (TIME, Aug. 19), hit the nation's magazines...
Obviously all the authors are admirers of the late President. The estimates of Franklin Roosevelt by his friendly contemporaries (now under way) will be Phase II of his rendezvous with history. They will join a sizable bookshelf of Rooseveltiana, about 100 books and scores of pamphlets published up to his death in April 1945, ranging from Liberty League squeals to pious campaign biographies...
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