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Eleanor Roosevelt 2: "You Gain Strength, Courage, and Confidence..."

August 31, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 16

“...by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” - Eleanor Roosevelt.

In episode 2 of our Ken Burn's style odyssey about Eleanor, Chesnaye covers the roaring 20s. Flappers, teapot dome, tariffs, and of course the lesbians arrive! We got hundred year old political smackdowns coming your way along with some woodworking because what are lesbians without woodworking, right? So sit back, grab a nice hot dog, and get ready to dig into the next phase of Eleanor Roosevelt's life and find out how she helped shape yours today!

Resources & Reading:

Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Search for Freedom and Identity in New York’s

Greenwich Village. By Jan Jarboe Russell

Eleanor Roosevelt, vols 1-3, Blanche Wiesen Cook

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt

https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/timeline/

Ken Burns’ documentary, The Roosevelts

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (Fuck Robert Moses.)

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C. Alexandra

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John Cherry Cordial

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