No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Language: English

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: Oct 1, 2008

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. 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.

Presents a detailed portrait of the daily life of the president and his wife during World War II, a period when the beginnings of modern America were formulated.