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“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.” (The New York Times)
“Engrossing . . . No Ordinary Time is no ordinary book. . . . An ambitiously conceived and imaginatively executed participant’s eye view of the United States in the war years. . . . 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.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“The Roosevelt marriage is endlessly gripping because it was so consequential. . . . The reader feels like a resident in the White House.” (The Boston Globe)
“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. 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.” (Chicago Sun-Times)
“A thoroughly terrific and important work, a valuable addition to Roosevelt literature. . . . Goodwin has deftly reminded us just how extraordinary FDR and Eleanor were in ‘no ordinary times.’” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“Engrossing . . . No Ordinary Time is no ordinary book. . . . An ambitiously conceived and imaginatively executed participant’s eye view of the United States in the war years. . . . 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.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“The Roosevelt marriage is endlessly gripping because it was so consequential. . . . The reader feels like a resident in the White House.” (The Boston Globe)
“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. 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.” (Chicago Sun-Times)
“A thoroughly terrific and important work, a valuable addition to Roosevelt literature. . . . Goodwin has deftly reminded us just how extraordinary FDR and Eleanor were in ‘no ordinary times.’” (San Francisco Chronicle)
About the Author
Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.
More About the Author
Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time, which was a bestseller in hardcover and trade paper. She is also the author of Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin.
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marjorie pawling
on November 18, 2013
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My 5th book on FDR. How is this one different? Goodwin deftly deals with the personal and very deep relationship between FDR and Eleanor. She also goes deeply into the constant travels (US, Europe, the Pacific) of Eleanor and describes in detail how she continuously fought for the economic and personal rights of women, children, and Afro-Americans. Her remarkable successes give one goose bumps. The reader will be fascinated by the unique contribution Eleanor gave to the country, the presidency, and to the president, himself.
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gloria tillery
on January 22, 2014
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It was a great read- excellent research, very thorough. I love history and sometimes it can be dry but Mrs. Goodwin makes the Roosevelt's, Churchill, Missy Lehand, Lucy Mercer and all of the others who are not so familiar seem very real. I thought I knew a great deal about the war and the US role in it but I learned so much. In my opinion FDR was second only to Lincoln in greatest. Reading both No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals confirmed this opinion. Doris Kearns Goodwin certainly deserved the Pulitzer and her books should be mandatory reading in all American History classes.
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Marie Barrese
on May 19, 2014
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Would recommend this seller to family and friends. Book itself is a little hard to get started, but filled with so many facts!
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Neil Glotzer
on February 8, 2014
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I am finding this book to be very informative. Doris Goodwin's narrative is captivating. Highly recommend this for anyone wanting an introduction to an important era in American history.
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