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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
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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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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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If I wasn't busy," she replied, "I'd go crazy.
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
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