Name Blanche Cook Role Professor | ||
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Books The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy Awards Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | ||
Education Johns Hopkins University | ||
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Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941 in New York City)
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- One to one blanche wiesen cook eleanor roosevelt
- FDR Speaker Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Personal life
- Career
- Writing
- Honors
- References
FDR Speaker: Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook
Personal life
Cook is openly gay. Cook's biography is controversial because of her claims that Roosevelt had a lesbian affair with reporter Lorena Hickok.
Career
She was a distinguished professor of history at John Jay College in the City University of New York.
In 1989, Cook became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.
Writing
She is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884–1933. Cook is also the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933–1938 and The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace and Political Warfare, among other books. The third and final volume of her Eleanor Roosevelt series was published; it is titled Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962.
Her writing can be found Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
Honors
Cook wrote a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winning biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. She was also interviewed for and featured in Ken Burns' 2014 PBS TV documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. She received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2010.