{"product_id":"no-ordinary-time-franklin-and-eleanor-roosevelt-the-home-front-in-world-war-ii","title":"No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling 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 describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing 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.  Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, \"No Ordinary Time\" relates the unique story of how Franklin Roosevelt led the nation to victory against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor's essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-- \"The New York Times\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Engrossing . . . \u003ci\u003eNo Ordinary Time\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-- \"The New York Times Book Review\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Roosevelt marriage is endlessly gripping because it was so consequential. . . . The reader feels like a resident in the White House.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-- \"The Boston Globe\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoris Kearns Goodwin\u003c\/strong\u003e's work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was \u003ci\u003eLyndon Johnson and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. \u003c\/i\u003eShe earned the Lincoln Prize for \u003ci\u003eTeam of Rivals\u003c\/i\u003e, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg's film \u003ci\u003eLincoln\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Carnegie Medal for \u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling \u003ci\u003eLeadership: In Turbulent Times \u003c\/i\u003ewas the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eAn Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s\u003c\/i\u003e, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people--JFK, LBJ, RFK, and MLK--and events of this momentous decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549857603770,"sku":"9780684804484","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_186772c0-07c2-4374-ab30-97972f802238.jpg?v=1769770754","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/no-ordinary-time-franklin-and-eleanor-roosevelt-the-home-front-in-world-war-ii","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}