"Eleanor," as brought to life by Jean Stapleton on Arena's Kreeger stage, is a historical novel reincarnated as a stage play. If that sounds a tad metaphysical, well, that's only fitting. "I lived in ...

(CBS Local)-- Eleanor Roosevelt was the nation's longest-serving First Lady of the United States, but there is so much more to her story than just that. Author David Michaelis dives into the many ...

Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin ...

America's first lady for an unprecedented 12 years, Eleanor Roosevelt collected a long list of contradictory labels over her lifetime. Beginning life as both a child of privilege and the daughter of ...

Throughout her childhood Eleanor Roosevelt was desperate for the approval of Theodore Roosevelt. Because her adoring father, Elliott, had died of alcoholism, she leaned on her swashbuckling Uncle Ted ...