“This pre­sen­ta­tion does for the longest-serv­ing First Lady what Rus­sell Freed­man’s Lin­coln: A Pho­to­bi­og­ra­phy (Clar­i­on, 1987) did for an ear­li­er inhab­i­tant of the White House. While the arrange­ment is chrono­log­i­cal from Roo­sevelt’s par­ents’ mar­riage to her own death, the nar­ra­tive is not lin­ear per se. Rather, each of the sev­en chap­ters leads read­ers through the sub­jec­t’s busy life with short sec­tions of text filled with well-doc­u­ment­ed first-per­son accounts and direct quotes. Much of the sto­ry is told with­in the meaty side­bars cov­er­ing sup­port­ing per­spec­tives, enlight­en­ing details, and amus­ing anec­dotes. Flem­ing is hon­est, respect­ful, and astute through­out, address­ing both suc­cess­es and con­tro­ver­sies with bal­ance (not to men­tion with can­dor, as when she approach­es the issue of Eleanor’s sex­u­al­i­ty with the state­ment Was She or Was­n’t She?). Not a spread goes by with­out incred­i­ble archival pho­tographs or repro­duc­tions, news­pa­per and mag­a­zine clip­pings, hand­writ­ten let­ters, and diary entries. Many of them have nev­er been pub­lished in a book for young peo­ple, and they all pro­vide rel­e­vant and fas­ci­nat­ing insight. The title sug­gests an inti­ma­cy between read­er and sub­ject, which is strength­ened by a design sug­gest­ing a fam­i­ly album. Pages are jam-packed with infor­ma­tion in vary­ing fonts and for­mats, yet still man­age to remain clear­ly and log­i­cal­ly laid out. Basic research tools include a time line, fam­i­ly tree, and exten­sive source notes. Enjoy­ably edu­ca­tion­al, Our Eleanor will be a core title in all col­lec­tions for years to come.” (School Library Jour­nal, Andrew Med­lar, starred review)