No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIDoris 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. |
Contents
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| 40 | |
Back to the Hudson | 61 |
Living Here Is Very Oppressive | 81 |
No Ordinary Time | 106 |
Arsenal of Democracy | 190 |
Business As Usual | 216 |
A Great Hour to Live | 241 |
The Greatest Man I Have Ever Known | 401 |
It Is Blood on Your Hands | 432 |
It Was a Sight I Will Never Forget | 456 |
Suspended in Space | 505 |
The Old Master Still Had It | 534 |
So Darned Busy | 554 |
It Is Good to Be Home | 570 |
Everybody Is Crying | 595 |
A Completely Changed World | 270 |
Two Little Boys Playing Soldier | 300 |
What Can We Do to Help? | 334 |
By God If It Aint Old Frank | 360 |
We Are Striking Back | 379 |
A New Country Is Being Born | 616 |
Afterword | 634 |
Bibliography | 715 |
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