Eleanor Roosevelt by Geraldine Kidd

Eleanor Roosevelt by Geraldine Kidd

This book examines in depth the effect Eleanor Roosevelt's support for Zionism had on the Palestinians and on her own conception of human rights.

"This is Eleanor Roosevelt as you've never seen her beforeMore often remembered as the champion of the down-trodden and an international advocate of equality, Geraldine Kidd shows us that even Eleanor's humanitarian activism had blind spots. Kidd vividly illustrates how Eleanor's childhood and patrician upbringing, so imbued with the ideology of a White Man's Burden, led to her comprehension of the Middle East and helped set in motion the U.S. commitment to a Jewish state." - Michael Patrick Cullinane, University of Roehampton, London.

"This is a fine and original piece of scholarship that exposes a side of Eleanor Roosevelt that has long been ignored, namely, her attitudes towards Palestinians and their rights. Many will be surprised at just how anomalous her views on Palestinians were compared with her eminently progressive and liberal attitudes to other oppressed or disadvantaged groups." - Alan P. Dobson, Swansea University

Geraldine Kidd lectures in Adult and Continuing Education on the Middle East at University College Cork, Ireland. She was awarded her PhD from the National University of Ireland in March 2015.

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ISBN 13	9781138281318
ISBN 10	113828131X
Title	Eleanor Roosevelt
Author	Geraldine Kidd
Series	Routledge Studies In Us Foreign Policy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2017-11-14
Number of pages	268
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