Goodwin has deftly reminded us just how extraordinary FDR and Eleanor were in ‘no ordinary times. Available in used condition with free US. “A thoroughly terrific and important work, a valuable addition to Roosevelt literature. From the publisher: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most. Buy No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II By Doris Kearns Goodwin. How their talents, insecurities, and demons impacted on the country and the world will be much better understood with the publication of this remarkable book.” “A tale rendered nearly seamless by Goodwin’s skills as a reporter and writer, and by the immense entanglement of her subjects’ private and public lives. The reader feels like a resident in the White House.” “The Roosevelt marriage is endlessly gripping because it was so consequential. The sheer abundance of colorful biographical anecdotes and the cumulative weight of telling detail sustain an atmosphere of immediacy and leave a lastingly vivid impression.” No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. An ambitiously conceived and imaginatively executed participant’s eye view of the United States in the war years. “Goodwin has pulled off the double trick of making Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt seem so monumental as to have come from a very distant past, and at the same time so vital as to have been alive only yesterday.”
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