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No ordinary time Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II

Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goings, the author paints a detailed, intimate portrait not only of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime but of the Roosevelts themselves and their extraordinary constellation of friends,...

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Main Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Other Authors: Herrmann, Edward, 1943-2014
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York, NY] : Simon & Schuster Audio, p1995.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, > 1884-1962.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
United States > History > 1933-1945.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
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Summary:Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president's and first lady's comings and goings, the author paints a detailed, intimate portrait not only of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime but of the Roosevelts themselves and their extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family, many of whom lived with them in the White House.
Item Description:Abridgement of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Physical Description:6 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:0743539656 :
9780743539654
Author Notes:Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 1943. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1968. She taught at Harvard University and worked as an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House.

She has written numerous books including The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Wait Till Next Year, and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and Leadership: In Turbulent Times. She has received numerous awards including Pulitzer Prize in history, the Harold Washington Literary Award, the Ambassador Book Award for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, and the Lincoln Prize and the Book Prize for American History for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

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