As Eleanor attempted to settle into her prototypical role as a housewife and mother, Franklin had bold aspirations for his life direction.  He graduated from Harvard and briefly attended Columbia Law School, then went on to pass the New York bar and subsequently hired by a law firm in New York City; however his passion for serving the public enveloped him.  Franklin made the easy decision to pursue an enduring political career, which began close to home with a nomination for

Eleanor returned home from London and spent that summer at her maternal grandmother’s country home Tivoli; while enjoyable, she soon found herself preparing for her debut at cotillion. (cotillion: “a formal ball given especially for debutantes”; this was an event partaken by young women typically from upper class families)             Eleanor’s struggles with self-confidence were still evident at the many balls she attended as part of her “coming out”; she states about her ex

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