Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt

From early uncertainty to an unlikely alliance that reshaped Cold War-era America, Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt, charts the remarkable partnership between two leaders who found common cause on civil rights, women’s rights, and the Peace Corps in the twenty-one months they shared in Washington. Author Barbara Perry, professor and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Project at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, discusses this singular alliance between two American icons with Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief of USA Today.