Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was arguably the most active and outspoken of the nation’s First Ladies, one who hurled herself into the national political arena and into international issues such as human rights. The more she observed the welter of events through which she lived, the more roles she assumed and the more articulate, more public, and more insistent her voice became. In the process, she used a wide variety of media, including print, radio, film, and television, to make her case, generating twenty-seven books, more than eight thousand columns, over 550 articles, and an average of seventy-five lectures a year. Her 1928 article “Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do,” written five years before she became First Lady and published in the popular ladies’ magazine Red Book, gives insight into her views of the role of women in politics. She argues for party-based organization at all levels and states that women have a both “right and duty in political life.”