Goodwin, Doris Kearns
No ordinary time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II / Doris Kearns Goodwin. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995, c1994. - 759 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
First published: 1994. Awards:Pulitzer Prize, History, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [715]-725) and index.
"The decisive hour has come" --
"A few nice boys with BB guns" --
"Back to the Hudson" --
"Living here is very oppressive" --
"No ordinary time" --
"I am a juggler" --
"I can't do anything about her" --
"Arsenal of democracy" --
"Business as usual" --
"A great hour to live" --
"A completely changed world" --
"Two little boys playing soldier" --
"What can we do to help?" --
"By god, if it ain't Old Frank!" --
"We are striking back" --
"The greatest man I have ever known" --
"It is blood on your hands" --
"It was a sight I will never forget" --
"I want to sleep and sleep" --
"Suspended in space" --
"The old master still had it" --
"So darned busy" --
"It is good to be home" --
"Everybody is crying" --
"A new country is being born" --
Afterword.
Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a brilliant narrative account of America during wartime. Photos. 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.
0684804484
9780684804484
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962.
Presidents--United States--Biography
Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography
United States--History--1933-1945
973.9170924 Goo 15
No ordinary time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II / Doris Kearns Goodwin. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995, c1994. - 759 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
First published: 1994. Awards:Pulitzer Prize, History, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [715]-725) and index.
"The decisive hour has come" --
"A few nice boys with BB guns" --
"Back to the Hudson" --
"Living here is very oppressive" --
"No ordinary time" --
"I am a juggler" --
"I can't do anything about her" --
"Arsenal of democracy" --
"Business as usual" --
"A great hour to live" --
"A completely changed world" --
"Two little boys playing soldier" --
"What can we do to help?" --
"By god, if it ain't Old Frank!" --
"We are striking back" --
"The greatest man I have ever known" --
"It is blood on your hands" --
"It was a sight I will never forget" --
"I want to sleep and sleep" --
"Suspended in space" --
"The old master still had it" --
"So darned busy" --
"It is good to be home" --
"Everybody is crying" --
"A new country is being born" --
Afterword.
Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a brilliant narrative account of America during wartime. Photos. 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.
0684804484
9780684804484
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962.
Presidents--United States--Biography
Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography
United States--History--1933-1945
973.9170924 Goo 15