In this volume the greatest and best-loved woman of her time shares the experiences - private and public - of her thirteen years since the death of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She describes in intimate detail the problems she had to solve after her husband's death, winding up his affairs and working out a pattern for her new life. That new life would include much traveling and diplomatic work around Europe, Russia and Asia for the United Nations, for her forthright humanitarian endeavors she was voted as ninth in Gallup's List Of Most Widely Admired People Of The 20th Century.