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Book: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.
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  2. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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  3. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
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  4. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.
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  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    FDR, even weakened and near the end of his life, opted to allow disabled veterans to see his true condition. This allowed them to understand the life which could still be before them.
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  6. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    If I wasn't busy," she replied, "I'd go crazy.
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  7. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
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