Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The US edition of Mrs. Miniver became a roaring success long before the film was thought of. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and the publishers were eager to get JS to tour America to...

RC became ill with poliomyelitis. This was before immunization had been developed, and not much was known about the condition. The disease left her without full use of her right leg.

An indefatigable name-dropper, RF wrote that the greatest, and most sensible, man she had ever met was Kemal Atatürk ; she then bracketed with him Franklin Delano Roosevelt . In Cairo she was always...

In FinlandRF met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim . On her first visit to the USA she met Rebecca West , Ruth Draper , Anna Pavlova , and H. G. Wells ; on...

Chloe's mother, born Ramah Willis , grew up on a farm in Greenville, Alabama; like her husband, she later moved north. She believed firmly in racial equality: her children were entitled to equal rights...