Sara Delano Roosevelt of the first generation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt & wife of the second generation, James Roosevelt & wife, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Roosevelt of the third generation, ...

PASSIONATE MOTHERS, POWERFUL SONS: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. By Charlotte Gray. Simon and Schuster. 432 pages. $29.99. Reams have been written about Winston ...

For 50 years, the accepted wisdom has been that Eleanor Roosevelt was some kind of secular saint, while her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, was a monster. Both women have been misperceived, ...

Early in “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons,” a double biography of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, author Charlotte Gray tells us that Winston Churchill’s American mother had grown ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...