Lash is a clear and thoughtful writer, and his work holds interest in every chapter. This series includes miscellaneous clippings that are arranged in rough chronological order. Eleanor and Franklin is a long book, but teenage readers will find that the narrative moves swiftly. Lash.Įleanor Roosevelt Papers, OF 444, National Youth Administration, OF 3910: American Youth Congress, PPF 6881: Joseph Lash, PPF 5057: American Student Union, PPF 2282: American Youth Congress, PPF 7180: International Student Service of the United States. Lash was published in 1971 and earned the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The papers were donated to the Library by Mr. Material that constitutes an unwarranted invasion of privacy has been closedĬopyright interests in the material have been donated to the United States Government. In November 1944, Lash married Trude Wenzel Pratt. Lash captivated the First Lady’s attention and became a lifelong friend and trusted advisor. In 1939, Lash was subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about communist infiltration of the American Youth Congress.

Roosevelt by her long-time friend Joseph Lash, the first 2-part, 4-hour installment of 'Eleanor and Franklin' traces the early lives and relationship of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to the point of his election as 32nd president of the United States in 1932. He then aligned himself with the anti-communist American liberals. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Mrs. Lash’s anti-war, anti-fascism convictions were shaken by Hitler’s rise to power and Stalin’s Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact. He also founded the Association of Unemployed College Alumni and served as an officer in the American Student Union. As a student, he actively campaigned for an American socialist revolution, the abolition of mandatory military training, and the Student League for Industrial Democracy. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York City, Lash received his Bachelor’s degree from City College and a Master’s from Columbia University. Joseph Lash, political activist and journalist, was best known for his biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt, one of which, Eleanor and Franklin, won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1972.

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