THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Now there are Student Movements and Civil Rights Movements of Young People Who are Organizing, and We Will Follow Them.”
Activist, historian, journalist, author, educator, radio broadcaster. Her definitive biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol I The Early Years 1884-1933; Vol II The Defining Years 1933-1938; Vol III The War Years and After, published by Viking, was called “monumental and inspirational…[a] grand biography” by the New York Times Book Review. Co-founder of The Conference on Peace Research in History, now the Peace History Society.
Interviewed by Rebecca Lubetkin, VFA Legacy, January, 2021
Photo 1. Blanche Wiesen Cook and Clare Coss, photo by Margaret Randall. Photo 2. (Left to right) Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Pam, Betty Shabazz, Bella Abzug, 1997. Photo 3. Blanche Wiesen Cook, Clare Coss, Kate Millett, Eleanor Pam, Barbara Schork. Photo 4. Blanche Wiesen Cook poses with a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt in New York’s Riverside Park, 2018.
More About Blanche:
- Blanche Wiesen Cook’s website
- Select lectures, speeches and interviews
- Columbia | Learn, Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning
- Women’s History Makes The Future – Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Laura Flanders Show, March 2018
- Blanche Wiesen Cook: Eleanor Roosevelt, with Sheryl McCarthy, November 2013
- Blanche Wiesen Cook: “Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 3, The War Years and After, 1939 to 1962, December 2016
- Blanche Wiesen Cook’s remarks at VFA event, Debut of Barbara Love’s book, “Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975,” Columbia University Faculty House and Barnard College, New York City. November 13, 2006
- American Experience interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt biographer, Blanche Wiesen Cook, 1999
- An interview by Bill Goldstein, Books Editor of The New York Times, 1999
- Women in Academia, Labor and the Professions with Dr. Eleanor Pam and Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook, 1999
- Women in Academia, Professional Staff Conference, 1997
- Books by Blanche Wiesen Cook and Complete Book Reviews
- John Jay College
- On C-SPAN
- The Living U.S. Women’s History Oral History Project, Smith College
- Blanche W. Cook papers, Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History
- Women’s International League For Peace & Freedom
- Peace Action New York State
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 94