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The First Lady of World War II with Shannon McKenna Schmidt

The Preamble

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The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's truly extraordinary. We have the first lady of the United States reporting directly to the American public from the ground in the Pacific," she says. "I just started, I described it as like panning for gold and just going through resource after resource ... down rabbit hole after rabbit hole." The book is published by Simon & Schuster at $16.99.

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