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• Dear Miss Perkins

  a Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees From Nazi Germany

  Graham, Rebecca Brenner,

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  Based on extensive research, including thousands of letters housed in the National Archives, Dear Miss Perkins adds new dimension to an already extraordinary life story, revealing at last how one woman tried to steer the nation to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Madam Secretary

  Dray, Stephanie,

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  Even before she became Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of labor and the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, Frances Perkins was a tireless advocate for better industrial conditions, an end to child labor, and other social,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unlikely Heroes

  Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made

  Leebaert, Derek,

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  Truman Book Award winner Leebaert reexamines four key people—Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace, all seen as outsiders—who served in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration from April 1933 until…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thanks to Frances Perkins

  Fighter for Workers' Rights / Written by Deborah Hopkinson, Illustrated by Kristy Caldwell

  Hopkinson, Deborah

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  A picture book portrait of America's first woman cabinet member describes how Frances Perkins worked to create new safety laws in the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and how her bold vision of inclusivity helped…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summoned

  Frances Perkins and the General Welfare

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  PBS Documentary featuring compelling interviews with David Brooks, Nancy Pelosi, Amy Klobuchar, Lawrence O'Donnell, and others. Available to stream on Kanopy with your Greenwich Library card!

• The Only Woman in the Photo

  Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America

  Krull, Kathleen

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  A picture book biography of the first woman to serve in an American presidential cabinet describes how Frances Perkins overcame shyness to fight against injustice before becoming the Secretary of Labor and the mastermind behind FDR’s New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Roosevelt I Knew

  Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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  The classic memoir by Frances Perkins (1880-1965), the first-ever woman to serve in the cabinet of an American President as Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor throughout his administration during 1933-1945. Published the year after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New York City Triangle Factory Fire

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  On March 25, 1911, flames rapidly consumed everything within the Triangle Waist Company factory, killing 146 workers. Until September 11, 2001, the Triangle fire was the deadliest workplace disaster in New York City history. Through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman Behind the New Deal

  the Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

  Downey, Kirstin

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  Presents a portrait of the first female cabinet member and one of the most influential women of the twentieth century, whose efforts to improve the lives of America's working people resulted in such initiatives as unemployment insurance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nothing to Fear

  FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

  Cohen, Adam (Adam Seth)

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  Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle (agriculture secretary Henry Wallace, presidential aide Raymond Moley, budget…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Madam Secretary, Frances Perkins

  Martin, George Whitney

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  A detailed account of the life and extended governmental career of America's first female cabinet member and of her unprecedented, largely successful program of economic and social reform.