Eleanor for President

By Merritt Ireley and Merritt Ierley

Drama / 18+ m, 9+ f, ensemble (some gender flexibility and doubling possible) A woman as Chief Executive? The 2008 presidential campaign proved it possible, yet it just might have happened more than half a century earlier. Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady from 1933 to 1945, might have run for president after the death of her husband, Franklin. Many thought about it, some talked about it, a few actually suggested it. That Eleanor Roosevelt did not seek public office was of her own choosing, and chiefly her own priorities as well as a sense that the time was not yet right. Act I of Eleanor for President briefly scans her career to a point where she might have run. Act II fictionalizes the fork in the road not takes. The net result is a unique, sometimes witty, and always insightful look at Eleanor Roosevelt and the political process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874402921
• ISBN13: 9780874402926
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"