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

KEARNS GOODWIN, Doris.

Item Number: 145346

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

First edition of the historian’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed with a quote by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John, ‘Those are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again. These simple lives. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, inspired her to make the rest of her life worthy of her husband’s memory. As long as she continued to fight for his ideals, she would continue to live,’ All my best, Doris Kearns Goodwin.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. A unique example.

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.