No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.

KEARNS GOODWIN, Doris.

Item Number: 126299

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Early printing of the historian’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Scott, Michael and Sophie, Whose grandmother is an extraordinary woman with skills, compassion and leadership like the subject of this book- Eleanor Roosevelt, Doris Kearns Goodwin.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.

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.