GOODWIN, Doris Kearns.
No Ordinary Time. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.
'As long as she continued to fight for his ideals, he would continue to live": First Edition of No Ordinary Time; Lengthily inscribed by Doris Kearns Goodwin
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
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First edition of this dual biography on the Roosevelts. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John, 'As long as she continued to fight for his ideals, he would continue to live,' Doris Kearns Goodwin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc by Bernadette Evangelist. A unique example.
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is a leading American historian and biographer whose narrative-driven studies of U.S. presidents have shaped both academic and popular understandings of political leadership. Educated at Colby College and Harvard, she first came to public attention through her work as a White House Fellow and later aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, experiences that informed her early scholarship on modern American liberalism. 'No Ordinary Time' (1994) is a richly textured dual biography that interweaves the private marriage and public leadership of the Roosevelts with a broad social history of the American home front between 1940 and 1945. Drawing on extensive interviews and archival sources, Goodwin portrays Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime governance alongside Eleanor Roosevelt’s expanding role as a moral and political actor, showing how their partnership shaped national resilience during total war. It won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History and enjoyed sustained critical and popular success in the years following publication.
No Ordinary Time. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.
$1,200.00
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