No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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.
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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This was my first book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and although it is enormously detailed with dates, names, and places, I found it fascinating throughout. This book deserved its Pulitzer Prize, and it paints a sometimes gripping portrait of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during WWII. I learned so much about how America dealt with the war effort, the complex relationship between Eleanor and Franklin, and her astonishing growth as a public leader in her own right, though one who was extremely controversial. I liked it especially because it blended a lot of personal information about the Roosevelt family (including the sad stories of many of their children and their remarkable inability to stay married for very long) as well as hard facts of history.
FDR and Eleanor could, and should, be seen as leaders and show you how to leader. Affairs not withstanding.....
Excellent book about FDR and Eleanor's relationship and how we got into WWII
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Excellent book about FDR and Eleanor's relationship and how we got into WWII
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