An de Joren nom Zweete Weltkrich war si eng héich Politikerin an der UNO. Si war do ë. a. Presidentin vun der Mënscherechtskommissioun, déi zu deem Zäitpunkt d'Allgemeng Declaratioun vun de Mënscherechter ausgeschafft huet. Dës gouf 1948 vun der UN-Vollversammlung offiziell ugeholl.
Wärend der McCarthy-Ära huet d'Eleanor Roosevelt sech ëffentlech géint dem McCarthy seng fanatesch antikommunistesch Vuë gestallt, an d'Hexejuegd op soi-disant Kommunisten, sou wéi d'Mësstrauen, dat iwwerall opkomm ass, "zudéifst onamerikanesch" genannt.
Wierker
It's Up to the Women, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933
A Trip to Washington With Bobby And Betty, New York: Dodge, 1935 (Kannerbuch)
This Is My Story, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937 (1. Deel vun hirer Autobiographie)
This I Remember, New York: Harper & Bros., 1949 (2. Deel)
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harper & Bros., 1958 (Memoirë vun 1937)
On My Own, New York: Harper & Bros., 1958 (3. Deel vun hirer Autobiographie)
Eleanor Roosevelt's Book of Common Sense Etiquette, The Macmillan Company, 1962
You Learn by Living, New York: Harper & Bros., 1960
Tomorrow is Now, New York: Harper & Row, 1963
Literatur
Blanche Wiesen Cook: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884–1933, New York (Viking), 1992. ISBN 0-670-80486-X
Blanche Wiesen Cook: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933–1938, (Penguin), 2000. ISBN 0-14-017894-5
Mary Ann Glendon: A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (Random House), 2002. ISBN 0-375-76046-6
Stella K. Hershan: A Woman of Quality. Eine Biographie über Eleonor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt Center, Val-Kill, 2000. (Erstauflage 1970) ISBN 978-0-931681-01-1
Lorena A. Hickok: Eleanor Roosevelt: Reluctant First Lady, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980 (Erstauflage 1968)
Joan Hoff-Wilson, Marjorie Lightman (Hg.): Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984
Victoria Garrett Jones: Sterling Biographies: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Courageous Spirit, (Sterling), 2007. ISBN 1-4027-3371-2
James Kearney: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of a Reformer, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968
Lois Scharf: Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism, Boston: Twayne, 1987
Alfred Steinberg: Mrs. R.: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958
Donald Wigal: The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt, (Citadel), 2003. ISBN 0-8065-2478-2
J. William T. Youngs: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, Boston: Little Brown, 1985; Neuausgabe 2005 bei Longman. ISBN 0-321-34232-1