No Ordinary Time Franklin & Eleanor

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.

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.

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to her bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals, the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award–winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, the New York Times bestselling chronicle of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Visit her at DorisKearnsGoodwin.com or @DorisKGoodwin.

CONTENTS

Preface

1. "The Decisive Hour Has Come" 
2. "A Few Nice Boys with BB Guns" 
3. "Back to the Hudson" 
4. "Living Here Is Very Oppressive" 
5. "No Ordinary Time" 
6. "I Am a Juggler" 
7. "I Can't Do Anything About Her" 
8. "Arsenal of Democracy" 
9. "Business As Usual" 
10. "A Great Hour to Live" 
11. "A Completely Changed World" 
12. "Two Little Boys Playing Soldier" 
13. "What Can We Do to Help?" 
14. "By God, If It Ain't Old Frank!" 
15. "We Are Striking Back" 
16. "The Greatest Man I Have Ever Known" 
17. "It Is Blood on Your Hands" 
18. "It Was a Sight I Will Never Forget" 
19. "I Want to Sleep and Sleep" 
20. "Suspended in Space" 
21. "The Old Master Still Had It" 
22. "So Darned Busy" 
23. "It Is Good to Be Home" 
24. "Everybody Is Crying" 
25. "A New Country Is Being Born"

Afterword

A Note on Sources 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Acknowledgments 
Index

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No Ordinary Time Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

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