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Elliott and Eleanor Roosevelt : the story of a father and his daughter in the Gilded Age / Geraldine Hawkins.

by Hawkins, Geraldine, author.

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Delmar, N.Y. : Black Dome, 2017.

Roosevelt, Elliott Bulloch, 1860-1894.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Childhood and youth.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Family relationships.

Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.

Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.

9781883789848 (paperback)

1883789842 (paperback)

xxi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

First paperback edition.

Foreword / John Matteson -- "Righteous enthusiasm" on Gramercy Park -- Skinny and Swelly -- Your lovingest of loving sons -- Vox Buffalorum -- Thoroughly and strangely unselfish -- I enjoy being with the old boy so much -- A sluggard's paradise -- Old Indian Fever -- Even the flowers are happier at being your servants -- Society with a big S -- Little Nell -- I am too sad and need no friends -- Something dreadful awaiting us -- He was the only person who did not treat me as a criminal -- The end of Anna -- Somehow it was always he and I -- Never forget I love you -- Utterly impossible to explain.

Elliott Roosevelt was by all accounts as charming and charismatic as any member of that charming and charismatic family, including his famously gregarious godson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As an adolescent, Elliott was the protector of his older brother, the then-sickly Theodore Roosevelt. As a teenager and young man in his early twenties, he roamed the American West when the West was still wild and went off on his own for an extended safari hunting big game in India. A strong social conscience instilled by his father stayed with him all his life, and he passed that compassion for the downtrodden on to his daughter, Eleanor Roosevelt. He was intelligent, handsome, wealthy, beloved by all, and he married one of the most beautiful women in New York society. Ten months later their first child, Eleanor, was born. It would seem that Elliott Roosevelt had the perfect life. Ten years after that, Elliott was dead following a fall from a window that might have been a suicide attempt, leaving Eleanor an orphan at age ten. Elliott had become a hardcore alcoholic, battled drug addiction, had a series of mistresses and fathered a child with one of them, and had become an outcast and pariah who was allowed no more than brief, sporadic visits with his wife and children. What happened to this young man of such remarkable potential who shared many of the finer qualities of his brother Theodore and his godson Franklin? And what effect did he have on his beloved daughter Eleanor, who cherished his memory all of her life as she went on to become one of the legendary women of the twentieth century? Elliott and Eleanor Roosevelt is a tragic story whose darkness is redeemed by the love of a broken father for his daughter, and by her enduring love for him.

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