Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill & Sara Delano Roosevelt. Book, Vid.
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"Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt," by Charlotte Gray, 2023. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- American Inspiration: A best-selling author series by American Ancestors. In this captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons changed the course of the 20th century, the award-winning historian Charlotte Gray breathes new life into Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons offers a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made.
Sara Delano, the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, were both born into upper-class America in 1854.
A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. As mothers, both woman turned their energies toward enabling their sons to reach the epicenter of political power on two continents.
Set against one hundred years of history, filled with intriguing social insight, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons reveals how these two remarkable individuals with dramatically different personalities shaped the characters of their adoring sons, men who would go on to change the world... (Author Event, Jan. 11, '24).
https://www.americanancestors.org/video-library/charlotte-gray-passionate-mothers-powerful-sons-lives-jennie-jerome-churchill-and-sara
- (27 mins., May 7, 2024). Historian Charlotte Gray joins Steve Paikin to discuss who these mothers were. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt may be the greatest leaders in the history of democracies. Their achievements in winning the 2nd World War are well known, but perhaps less well known is the role their mothers played in their success. Historian Charlotte Gray's latest book is, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sarah Delano Roosevelt."
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- Wiki. Jeanette Spencer-Churchill CI RRC DStJ (née Jerome; 9 Jan. 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Randolph_Churchill
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- Wiki, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Sara Ann Roosevelt (née Delano; Sept. 21, 1854 – Sept. 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Roosevelt