"You are such a secret person, Eleanor, such a secret person. Whatever is it that you are growing in there?" asks historian Henry Adams of his young friend in Rhoda Lerman's play "Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Secret Journey." Adams predicts that the melancholy young mother of five - who grew into a formidable first lady - would "one day change history," but first she must "endure a great fire" in order to transform herself. That great fire burned her deeply on four fronts: Her rigid upper-class family; the devastation of World War I; her husband's overt affairs (especially with Lucy Mercer); and finally the loss of her husband, President Franklin D...