A biography on Eleanor Roosevelt, describing how she changed the role of the first lady through her active and outspoken participation in American politics.

When Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala turn up in ten-year-old Nolan's bedroom closet, his mother, taking Mrs. Roosevelt for the new baby sitter, leaves him and his little sister Olive with her.

There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south lawn, to representing America as the first female delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor rarely kept a second of her life for herself -- and she wouldn't have had it any other way.