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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, 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.
- Sales Rank: #9268 in Books
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Published on: 1995-10-01
- Released on: 1995-10-01
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.40" w x 6.12" l, 1.89 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 768 pages
- Great product!
Amazon.com Review
A compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. With an uncanny feel for detail and a novelist's grasp of drama and depth, Doris Kearns Goodwin brilliantly narrates the interrelationship between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and the destiny of the United States. Goodwin paints a comprehensive, intimate portrait that fills in a historical gap in the story of our nation under the Roosevelts.
From Publishers Weekly
Goodwin's account of the Roosevelt presidency during WWII highlights America's changing domestic front.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Goodwin (The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, LJ 2/15/87) here focuses upon the wartime White House, "a small, intimate hotel" frequented by Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Lorena Hickock, Missy LeHand, and other guests of the state and of the Roosevelts. Goodwin's eye for life's details catches Franklin's ongoing quarrel with the kitchen, the feel of the map room, Eleanor's unease at the cocktail hour, FDR's delight in this ritual, and many other scenes. Her portraits of ER and FDR are highly sympathetic, showing them heroically-but by no means flawlessly-leading an unwilling nation into the wartime effort that helped defeat the Axis and changed America unimaginably. Goodwin's narrative, based upon interviews and other primary research and deeply informed by the scholarship of others, will keep company with the best works in the vast Roosevelt canon and will absorb and delight a wide readership. For all libraries.
Robert F. Nardini, North Chichester, N.H.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
No ordinary book, either
By Clem
When Franklin Roosevelt was the President of the United States, he would sometimes deliver speeches to the American people via radio that he dubbed “Fireside Chats”. His idea was to give a talk to the American people, from time to time, about relevant current events in a language that the people could truly understand. He didn’t want to overwhelm them with government jargon, nor get technical with the comings and goings of the country. He wished to simply talk to the people so that they would have a full, rich understanding of whatever was his topic of the chat. I mention this as I begin my review of this book because this seems the overall goal of author Doris Kearns Goodwin as well. She doesn’t set out to overburden the reader with masses of detail, she simply sets out to tell a wonderful, absorbing story.
This book is not an exhaustive biography of Franklin and/or Eleanor Roosevelt. Nor is it a sequential, detailed account of the accomplishments of the 32nd President’s administration. No, there are plenty of books out there for you if that is what you are wanting. This book, instead, tells a magnificent story of the President and the First Lady as they guided the United States of America through its most tumultuous time of the 20th century.
This book really does have a little bit of “everything”, though. We start the narrative on May 9th, 1940. This was eight months after World War II began, but I believe the author starts the story here - as Hitler is simultaneously invading Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France, because this is the time when most in the USA realized that, sooner or later, this would be America’s war as well. So we do hear about events of the conflict in Europe and in Asia, but we’re also exposed to other troubles on the home front - some related to the war, others not so much. We’re also allowed to peer into the private lives of Franklin and Eleanor, and we learn much about these two great individuals, and how they were able to lift the U.S.A out of the Great Depression into arguably the greatest time the country has ever had when forced to rise to such an enormous occasion.
We do get thrown bits of information of their lives before 1940, but not much. Readers wanting, for example, a comprehensive understanding of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” should probably look elsewhere. When Goodwin takes us back in time, she does this so the reader can better understand the present. We see, for example, that these fifth cousins were actually born into a life of privilege, yet were attracted to each other because the other one had characteristics that they each sorely lacked. We also see Franklin’s over protective mother who smothered him with far too much attention. She never could really “let him go”, which actually damaged Franklin and Eleanor’s marriage to a degree.
This story is just as much about Eleanor as it is about Franklin. As First Lady of the United States, she’s not at all content to simply being a hostess of the White House and giving cocktail parties. No, the woman had an incredible progressive spirit, and she uses her title to travel the country pointing out all of the injustices and doing everything in her power to bring the issues to the front of everyone’s mind, including her husband’s. Her pet cause is Civil Rights for the African-American community, a cause that greatly needed more support. It really is amazingly heart breaking to read about the injustices that still existed in the 1940s around race relations.
Eleanor travels abroad as well, visiting soldiers close to the battle lines and in the hospitals, bringing comfort wherever she can. The woman has such a tireless disposition, that she manages to wear out and exhaust the military brass as they escort her around their destinations. Even they can’t keep up with the First Lady. At one point, the author mentions that the President and the First Lady were a great team because Franklin was good at accomplishing what could be done, whereas Eleanor devoted her attention to what should be done. The two, oddly, don’t always go hand in hand.
Sadly, it’s the actual relationship between husband and wife that makes this tale a bit sad. We’re left with the impression that these two really did need one another, but they didn’t necessarily want one another. They had one of those marriages that probably would have failed if these two people would have lived sixty years in the future. It seems as though, early on in their marriage, their romantic devotion dies. At one point, around 1918, Eleanor discovers her husband had been having an affair with Lucy Mercer. This news devastated her, as it should. What Eleanor did not know is that Franklin continued to have clandestine meetings with Ms. Mercer while President, even up until his death in 1945 (although many doubt that the relationships was anything more than a deep friendship). Such a relationship was possible because, well, Eleanor was never home. She was always out, on the road doing whatever she could for the cause. Truth be told, there seemed to be a lot of deep emotional attachments that both of them shared with other people. There’s even a hint that Eleanor was involved in a lesbian relationship with journalist Lorena Hickok. Although this was always speculative, most would agree that Hickok definitely did have romantic feelings for Eleanor, we just will never know whether or not such feelings were ever reciprocated.
So great leaders of a great country, they definitely were. As a leader of a normal household as husband and wife, not as much. We read a bit about the five Roosevelt children, and we’re left with the impression that growing up was a bit hard from an emotional perspective. None of the kids would live up to their parent’s legend, and between the five of them, they ended up with 19 marriages amongst them. Even when Eleanor is home in the White House, she and Franklin have separate bedrooms, and Franklin seems more chummy with selected members of his female staff (many reside in the White House as well), than the First Lady.
But these two soldiers lumber on, working tirelessly to the point of exhaustion. Oddly, FDR is nearly at death’s door as early as 1944, yet he still manages to win a fourth term as President. Not sure if that could happen in the 21st century with the internet and cable news. Sadly, Roosevelt finally does succumb to death a mere month from the allies victory in Europe, and it’s truly sad that he doesn’t live long enough to see one of his greatest triumphs of rallying a nation to defeat an evil deranged dictator.
I simply loved this book. Not once did I feel overwhelmed with detail about politics, policies, elections, or war time strategy. Doris Kearns Goodwin keeps things very simple, very concise, yet manages to be very thorough as well. I can’t seemed to ever recall when 600+ pages went by so quickly. A truly remarkable book about two of our greatest leaders that led the country during the most unordinary times of our nation’s history. Thank God.
Literally, Thank God.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A great read--well-written, fascinating, and detailed
By JJC
This was a great book in the DKG tradition. It helps to be a history buff to enjoy it since it is full of politics and discussions of policies and administration. The Eleanor and Franklin story will probably already be known to readers who pick this book up, but the detailed analysis of how the country geared up for WWII is not so well known and is well-portrayed here. A surprising and real strength of the book is how the author wove in the twin threads of race relations and gender issues throughout the narrative without making them seem pasted in. (It's disconcerting to realize how far we have not come regarding race and women since the days of the Roosevelts). The book inspired me to visit Campobello Island in Canada and the Roosevelt Memorial in the D.C.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
No Ordinary Book
By C. Karns
I first became familiar with Doris Kearns Goodwin through her television appearances as a Presidential historian. I'd long admired the Roosevelts, and ordered this book to learn more about them. I still admire them, but I found the insights into their personalities somewhat surprising. I already knew that FDR had been unfaithful, but learning of his peculiar ways of handling people that he had issues with was confusing. I was also not impressed by knowing how Mrs. Roosevelt dealt with people and I came away feeling glad that I wasn't closely related to her. But she had so many pressures starting with her mother in law's treatment of her, to FDR's polio, his affair, her recurring depression, plus several betrayals by other friends and family that it's amazing she did anything. It's also a shame that this couple didn't seem to understand one another that well, yet were sometimes each other's rock. The people with whom they worked, and/or had personal relationships with, were really interesting to learn about--as was FDR's rather cavalier disregard of their needs.
As far as the book is concerned, it's an impressive work. The magnitude of sources would have daunted a lesser writer to organize into a cohesive book. I felt that this was a clearly presented view of the personal and professional lives of the couple, presented without judgment or bias. Kearns Goodwin allows the reader to draw her own conclusions about what was admirable, or not, in these complex people. I read more than I wanted to about the US production of war materials, but the way FDR orchestrated the country's entrance into the war was fascinating, as was his vision of both it and the character of the American people, whom he never underestimated and rarely misjudged. I loved all the sections about his and Churchill's work together, and learned quite a bit about Russia and Stalin's roles in WWII.
It's so interesting to compare the political process then with our current extended, expensive way of reaching Presidential nominations by the parties. The remarkable achievements made by both Eleanor and Franklin come into clear focus, and are the more amazing for knowing how they accomplished what they did. My parents lived through those days of the Depression, WWII, and its aftermath. I'm glad to know more about what the country was like then. The connection of Eleanor's efforts on behalf of African Americans, especially but not exclusively within the military, with the later civil rights movement was clear. Likewise the formation of the UN, the creation of the GI Bill, and even the seeds of the Cold War are contained in this book. This is a dense read part of the time, but it contains so many illustrations of how these two flawed people worked together and separately that it's quite enjoyable most of the time. Many events are described from different viewpoints and in sufficient detail that one can imagine very well what the experiences were like. The account of FDR's death is so vivid that I could imagine the scramble at the cottages in Warm Springs, the passage of the funeral train back to DC, and the funeral and later burial as though I'd seen these things. Finally, the detailed look at the condition of the White House as it was presented to the Trumans just illustrates the focus of the Roosevelts on the country's needs over their personal living space. The image of rotting curtains speaks volumes as to our different First Ladies' priorities!
The book rivals my favorite biography of John Adams by David McCullough, but it'd be tough to say which is better. Kearns Goodwin's ability to give that "you were there" feeling is surely impressive. I've also received "Team of Rivals", and I look forward to delving into Lincoln's history soon.
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