![]() ![]() Readers seeking a deep appreciation for the ebb and flow of World War II will be disappointed. ![]() But Goodwin occasionally breaks the timeline to inject historical context which would otherwise fall outside the book’s scope (such as the Roosevelts’ early upbringings, FDR’s battle with polio and the marital rift created by Franklin’s affair with Lucy Mercer).Īs its title suggests, Goodwin’s book is far more focused on the “home front” than with global affairs. With few exceptions “No Ordinary Time” proceeds chronologically. However, this book is not comprehensive in scope – it is focused on the last five years of the Roosevelt presidency (1940 through 1945). Goodwin’s narrative is sometimes gossipy but more often is sober and serious. This 636 page book is meticulously researched, fact-filled and essentially a hybrid literary construct: it is part history text and part dual-biography (of FDR and his wife Eleanor). Kennedy, LBJ, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Goodwin is an author and presidential historian who has written about Abraham Lincoln, John F. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “ No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II” was published in 1994 and won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. ![]()
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