No Ordinary Time
Author | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Country | United States |
Genre | History |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1994 |
Pages | 759 |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History |
ISBN | 978-0684804484 |
Preceded by | The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga |
Followed by | Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is a historical, biographical book by American author and presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster in 1994.
Based on interviews with 86 people who knew them personally, the book chronicles the lives of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, focusing particularly on the period between May 10, 1940 (the end of the so-called "Phoney War" stage of World War II) and President Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945. The title is taken the speech Eleanor Roosevelt gave at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in hopes of unifying the, at the time, divided Democratic party.[1]
No Ordinary Time was awarded the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2]
References
- ↑ Roosevelt, Eleanor - "This Is No Ordinary Time", Speech to the 1940 Democratic National Convention, July 1940, FDR Library Archives. Accessed 2016-01-01
- ↑ Dolores Flaherty and Roger Flaherty (October 29, 1995). "No Ordinary Time, No Ordinary Couple". The Chicago Sun-Times. – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . Retrieved 7 December 2012.
External links
- Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, September 19, 1994
- Booknotes interview with Goodwin on No Ordinary Time, January 1, 1995.