An edition of No Ordinary Time (1994)

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An edition of No Ordinary Time (1994)

No ordinary time

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II

  • 4.2 (4 ratings) ·
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  • 2 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

From the best-selling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created.

Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin writes a brilliant narrative account of how the United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world.

At the center of the country's transformation was the complex partnership of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin's main objective from the war's onset was victory, and he knew the war could not be won without focusing the energies of the American people and expanding his base of support - making his peace with conservative leaders and gaining the cooperation of big business.

Eleanor, meanwhile, felt the war would not be worth winning if the old order of things at home prevailed and was often at odds with her husband in her efforts to preserve the gains of the New Deal and achieve reforms in civil rights, housing, and welfare programs.

While Franklin manned the war room at the White House and held meetings with Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mackenzie King, and other world leaders to discuss strategy for the war abroad, Eleanor crisscrossed the country, visiting the American people, seeing how the war and policies her husband made in Washington affected them as individuals.

Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goings, Goodwin paints a detailed, intimate portrait not only of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime but of the Roosevelts themselves and their extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family, many of whom lived with them in the White House: Missy LeHand, FDR's "other wife" and secretary; Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest friend and adviser; the president's indomitable mother, Sara; the Roosevelts' daughter, Anna; Eleanor's close friends Lorena Hickock and Joe Lash; Crown Princess Martha of Norway; FDR's former lover Lucy Rutherfurd, who, in a final, painful blow to Eleanor, was with him when he died.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
759

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No Ordinary Time : Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Nov 05, 2013, Simon & Schuster
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II
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No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
1995, Simon & Schuster
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
October 1, 1995, Simon & Schuster
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No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
1994, Simon & Schuster
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [715]-725) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.917/092/2, B
Library of Congress
E807 .G66 1994, E807.G66 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
759 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
759

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1103546M
Internet Archive
noordinarytimef000good
ISBN 10
0671642405
LCCN
94028565
OCLC/WorldCat
30736131
Library Thing
13591
Goodreads
1655524

First Sentence

"On nights filled with tension and concern, Franklin Roosevelt performed a ritual that helped him to fall asleep."

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