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No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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No Ordinary Time

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · October 1, 1995

Reading lane: 20th-Century America

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.

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Why This Clicks

Power at Home

A layered look at power, marriage, and wartime life in Roosevelt-era America.

Come here for

  • Franklin and Eleanor at home-front scale
  • history with domestic tension and public consequence

Expect

  • close attention to private life and public duty
  • a study-friendly, sweeping historical frame

Book Details

Authors
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
October 1, 1995
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
20th-Century America · Presidents & First Families
Reading lane
20th-Century America

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Publisher Categories

  • Presidents & World Leaders

  • World War II History

  • 20th-Century America

About This Book

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact...

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Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.

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