Eleanor and Franklin: the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers

I. Childhood and youth : Eleanor's father ; Her mother ; The world into which Eleanor was born ; The crack-up ; Her mother's death ; "He lived in my dreams" ; The outsider ; The spark is struck ; Young in a young country in a young time ; "For life, for death" ; Mother and son ; Journey's end ; Epithalamion

II. Wife and mother : Honeymoon ; Settling down ; The wife of a public official ; The Roosevelts go to Washington ; Bringing up her children ; The approach of war ; Private into public person ; Trial by fire ; Reconciliation and a trip abroad ; The rebellion begins

III. The emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt : A campaign and friendship with Louis Howe ; Baptism in politics ; The tempering, polio ; Her husband's stand-in ; The 1924 campaign ; Life without father ; A life of her own ; Smith's defeat, Roosevelt's victory ; Return to Albany ; Roosevelt bids for the presidency ; "I never wanted to be a president's wife" ; Mrs. Roosevelt conquers Washington

IV. The White House years : The politics of conscience ; Mrs. Roosevelt's "baby": Arthurdale ; Publicist for the New Deal: columnist and lecturer ; Without Louis Howe: the 1936 campaign ; Wise as a serpent, guileless as a dove ; Changes at Hyde Park ; Life with mother and father ; The divided White House ; A gathering storm ; The youth movement ; From pacifist to antifascist ; A spiritual shock ; Mrs. Roosevelt and the communists ; FDR administers a spanking ; The third term ; A job to do ; GI's friend, I: journey to Britain ; A consciousness of color ; GI's friend, II: the First Lady and the admiral ; The 1944 campaign ; Death of the Commander-in-Chief.