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Joseph Paul Lash (December 2, 1909 – August 22, 1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former ...
23 ago 1987 · Joseph P. Lash, a newspaperman-turned-historian whose lifelong friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt became the basis of an acclaimed biography, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital...
24 ago 1987 · Joseph P. Lash, 77, whose longtime friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt helped him write a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the former first lady, died Aug. 22 at a hospital in Boston where...
Joseph Paul Lash, né le 2 décembre 1909 à New York et mort le 22 août 1987 à Boston, est un activiste politique radical américain, journaliste et auteur.
Joseph Lash was Eleanor's personal secretary and confidant. He wrote several books on the Roosevelts including some on both Eleanor and Franklin individually and was also a controversial activist in his own right in leftist , liberalism , social and labor issues of the era.
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers is a 1971 biography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by Joseph P. Lash. Its companion volume, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), covers her life as a widow after Franklin D. Roosevelt 's death.
Born to Russian-Jewish emigre parents on December 9, 1909 in New York City's Upper West Side, Joseph Lash would ultimately become one of the most important student leaders of the depression era, as well as a respected journalist and biographer.
