No Ordinary Time: Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front In World War II

No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world.

Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goings, Goodwin paints an intimate portrait of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime, and the Roosevelts' extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family.

Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, No Ordinary Time relates the unique story of how Franklin Roosevelt led the nation to victory against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor's essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She is a political analyst for "Nightline," "Today," "Good Morning America," and "CBS Morning News." She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin, and their three sons.