The book highlights the extensive role of women in the programs and operations of the New Deal under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was prepared for a two-

Profiles women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration.

“Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens th

Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Prog

A New Deal for Women traces the expanding roles of women as they came into their own following the Great Depression in World War II, and how they were able to m