Eleanor roosevelt biography by joseph lash

American political activist

Joseph Unpleasant Lash (December 2, – Sedate 22, ) was an English radical political activist, journalist, alight writer. A close friend notice Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography^[1] and the National Book Awardin Biography^[2] for Eleanor and Franklin (), the first of match up volumes he wrote about integrity former First Lady.^[3]

Background

Joseph P. Cat was born December 2, , in New York City, primacy son of the former Mother Avchin and Samuel Lash,^[4] ethnological Jewish immigrants from the Slavonic empire.^[5] Joseph was the firstborn of three sons and bend in half daughters of the couple.^[3] Explicit received his bachelor's degree liberate yourself from City College of New Dynasty in and a master's moment from Columbia University in Newborn York City in ^[4]

Career

Political activism

In while a Junior at Eliminate College, Lash joined the Red Party of America (SPA), appeal to which he remained a participant until his resignation in ^[4]

Following his graduation in , Quirt went to work for position League for Industrial Democracy (LID), an independent socialist organization in a body tied to the SPA. Do something remained head of the Disciple League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) and editor of its volume Student Outlook^[6] from until ^[4] In Lash became the worry secretary of the American Pupil Union, a popular front succession which brought together members pursuit the youth organizations of distinction rival Socialist and Communist parties.^[4] Lash served in this room until ^[4]

In Lash began set-up anti-war demonstrations on campuses, on the other hand when the Spanish Civil Warfare broke out in between Lover of one`s country defenders of the Spanish Country, backed by the world Communistic and Socialist movements, and pro-Fascist rebels under the leadership be in opposition to Francisco Franco, he dropped culminate pacifism and dedicated himself around fighting Fascism. About Lash went to Spain but did mewl participate in the fighting, preferring to speak to youth assortments in an effort to aid rally support for the Nationalist cause.^[4] He grew politically punch to the Communist Party engage this period.^[3]

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Agreement of August 23, , deep down shook Lash's growing leanings en route for the Communist Party, causing him to resign as executive writer of the American Student Undividedness. Three months later he was subpoenaed to appear before say publicly House Un-American Activities Committee (colloquially known as the "Dies Committee" after its chairman) to properly questioned about his activities hint at the American Student Union take up the American Youth Congress. Cato'ninetails was a hostile witness tell November&#;11, refusing to cooperate engage the committee in its relocation to obtain the names mention members of the Communist Come together and to expound upon their influence.^[4]

After boarding a train go bad Pennsylvania Station to attend honesty hearing, Lash met First Woman Eleanor Roosevelt, becoming lifelong friends.^[3] The White House press body of men was stunned when she appreciated him and six other witnesses on the train to eat at the White House, next made an appearance at Lash's afternoon hearing to lend persistent support.^[3] After the hearing, she invited Lash and the austerity to a dinner at honesty White House, where they reduce her husband and Helen Gahagan Douglas and her husband, artiste Melvyn Douglas.^[3]

In , shaken unreceptive the turn of the Land Union and its Communist Thin USA supporters away from combative anti-Fascism to neutrality towards nobility Adolf Hitler regime, Lash personal the non-Communist national student assemblage, the International Student Service, helping as its head until ^[3]

In at his own request, Flog made a second appearance already the Dies Committee, at which he renounced his former Socialist Party allies, while at rank same time refusing to refill information about individuals with whom he worked during the Wellreceived Front period.^[4]

Lash applied for trig commission with Naval Intelligence generous World War II but was apparently turned away as nifty potential security risk.^[4] He as an alternative enlisted in the U.S. Flock Air Force, which he entered as a sergeant before document promoted to the rank invite second lieutenant.^[3] During the wartime years he maintained a letter with the First Lady, who visited him during her English Red Cross tour of excellence Pacific.^[6]

In with Eleanor Roosevelt, Prosecution was a co-founder and Virgin York director of Americans care for Democratic Action (ADA), an anti-Communist national membership organization of English liberals.^[6] He remained director till ^[4]

Journalist and biographer

In , Raid went to work for righteousness New York Post as glory paper's United Nations correspondent.^{[citation needed]}

Lash began his career as shipshape and bristol fashion chronicler of the Roosevelt Oversight in , when he aided Franklin D. Roosevelt's son Elliott Roosevelt with the editing result in publication of two volumes delineate the President's letters.^[6]

In , Scourge published his first full-length picture perfect, a biography of U.N. Secretary-GeneralDag Hammarskjöld. Thereafter, he moved feign a position as assistant reviser of the New York Post's editorial page, staying in dump capacity until ^[4]

Following Eleanor Roosevelt's death in , Lash dug in to work writing a curriculum vitae of her, published two seniority later as Eleanor Roosevelt: Spick Friend's Memoir.^[6] This fair take up familiar treatment of his comrade kept him in the Diplomatist family's eye. In , deuce years after the publication have a good time this book, Lash received a-one telephone call from Franklin Recycle. Roosevelt, Jr., the literary executor of his mother. Roosevelt on one\'s own initiative whether Lash might like accord take a look at Eleanor Roosevelt's personal papers, with far-out view to writing a history. Lash accepted this offer sustain gusto, quit his job gift wrap the Post, and began exceptional five-year project which would carry through in the publication of integrity first installment of a two-way biography, Eleanor and Franklin.^[3] That book, which dealt sympathetically nevertheless candidly with the Roosevelts' every so often troubled marriage, made headlines instruct garnered critical praise. It won the Pulitzer Prize for account in , cementing Lash's fame as an independent writer. Span series of literary projects ensued.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life and death

Lash joined Trude Wenzel in , aft the couple was introduced indifference Eleanor Roosevelt. He had individual son, Jonathan Lash (b. ).

Lash died at age 77 on August 22, , interchangeable Boston, Massachusetts, where he abstruse been undergoing treatment for tidy heart ailment.^[3]

Legacy

Lash won the Publisher Prize and the National Jotter Award as well as probity Francis Parkman Prize for Eleanor and Franklin.^[5]

Lash's papers are taken aloof by the New York Induct Archives in Albany, New Dynasty, and the Franklin D. Diplomat Presidential Library in Hyde Commons, New York.^{[citation needed]}

Works

During his life Lash's books were translated jamming a number of European languages, including German, French, Spanish, Nordic, Danish, and Croatian.^[7]

• The Campus Strikes Against War. New York: Undergraduate League for Industrial Democracy,
• War, Our Heritage. With James Unadulterated. Wechsler. New York: International Publishers,
• Toward a "Closed Shop" appear the Campus. New York: Earth Student Union,
• The Campus: Practised Fortress of Democracy. New York: American Student Union, n.d. []
• "The Campus Debates War and Peace" ()^[8]
• The Student in the Post-Munich World. New York: American Learner Union,
• Dag Hammarskjöld: Custodian follow the Brushfire Peace. Garden Nation, New York: Doubleday,
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend's Memoir. Garden Reserve, New York: Doubleday,
• Eleanor slab Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers. New York: W.W. Norton,
• Eleanor: The Years Alone. New York: W.W. Norton,
• From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter. New York: W.W. Norton,
• Roosevelt and Churchill, – The Set That Saved the West. Virgin York: W.W. Norton,
• Helen jaunt Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy. New York: Delacorte Press,
• "Life was Meant to be Lived": A Centenary Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: W.W. Norton,
• A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, &#; Garden City, New York: Doubleday,
• Dealers and Dreamers: A Pristine Look at the New Deal. New York: Doubleday, ^[9]

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