This I Remember.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949).
8vo.; frontispiece of Eleanor Roosevelt; photographs interspersed throughout; blue cloth with printed spine label; blue slipcase, faded at edges, with printed label affixed to front.
Signed, limited edition of the second of four volumes; 1000 copies. It spans the years from her husband’s gubernatorial years to his 1945 death, and is more of a biography of FDR than an autobiography of Eleanor. She explains this in her first chapter, “As I Begin...”:
In this book, I feel the times need not be discussed by me, for over and over again, the period will be written about by historians. Yet perhaps I shall be able to give some impressions which may help in the understanding of the stream of history during these complicated years.
…what I have to say, if it is to contribute anything more to the understanding of [FDR’s] life and character and objectives, must be about him as an individual.
I do not claim that I can be entirely objective about him, but there are some things I know that I feel sure nobody else can know… if I can contribute what I have learned and what I believe to be true, I may help to fill in the true picture for future historians.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said about This I Remember, “Only a great woman could have written it.”
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