From 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.
Using 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.