No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Goodwin has deftly reminded us just how extraordinary FDR and Eleanor were in ‘no ordinary times. 0743201752 GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An. “A thoroughly terrific and important work, a valuable addition to Roosevelt literature. 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.” An ambitiously conceived and imaginatively executed participant’s eye view of the United States in the war years. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the. “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.” Doris Kearns Goodwins Pulitzer Prizewinning classic about the relationship between Franklin D.
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