It is a marvelous hybrid historical narrative and biographical portraiture. This is World War II as viewed from the American home front, and specifically through the eyes of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. There are no descriptions of clashing armies, no in-depth armchair analyses of battlefield strategies, no biographical sketches of medal-bedecked generals moving their men like so many pawns. ĝoris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIĭoris Kearns Goodwin’s No Ordinary Time is an unusual World War II book. In all the situations over the years in which he had seen the president, he ‘had never had such reason to admire him…’” If it was something that was bad, he just became almost like an iceberg, and there was never the slightest emotion that was allowed to show.’ Sumner Welles agreed with Eleanor’s assessment. His reaction to any event was always to be calm. While his aides and Cabinet members were running in and out in a state of excitement, panic, and irritation, was sitting quietly at his desk, absorbing the news from Hawaii as it continued to flow in – ‘each report more terrible than the last.’ Though he looked strained and tired, Eleanor observed, ‘he was completely calm. “The first thing Eleanor noticed when she went into her husband’s study was his ‘deadly calm’ composure.
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