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No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines — Eleanor and... read more
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- Eleanor Roosevelt: Wife of Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady of the United States for 13 years. She was very involved with social issues.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Democratic President of the United States for almost 13 years.
- Winston Churchill: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.
- Henrietta Nesbitt: Add a description of this character.
- Adolf Hitler
- Joseph Stalin
- Anna Roosevelt Boettiger: Only daughter and oldest child of Franklin and Eleanor.
- Henry Stimson
- Sara Delano Roosevelt: Franklin's mother.
- Lorena 'Hick' Hickok: A female reporter and close personal friend of Eleanor.
- John Roosevelt
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Lucy Page Mercer: Close friend of Franklin.
- George Marshall
- Wendell Wilkie
- James Farley
- A. Philip Randolph
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: General in Europe during World War II and future president of the United States.
- Dr. Howard Bruenn
- Henry Morgenthau III
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff: Artist working on a portrait of FDR when he suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage.
- James Roosevelt
- William Hassett
- Lord Moran
- Frank Knox
- William Knudsen
- John L. Lewis
- Henry Wallace
- Dr. Ross McIntire
- Bernard Baruch
- Cordell Hull
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Esther Lape
- Stephen Wise
- Halsey
- Joseph Buttinger
- Jacqueline Jones
- Vannevar Bush
- Geoffrey Perrett
- Isaiah Berlin
- Wayne Coy
- Henry Kaiser
- George Skaddings
- Frankie Cooper
- Ralph Robey
- James Hymes
- Lucy Rutherfurd
- Mrs. Charles Hamlin
- Anthony Eden
- Martha Gellhorn
- Woodrow Wilson
- David Lawrence
- William Bullitt
- William Hastie
- Felix Frankfurter
- Robert Murphy
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Milton Lipson
- George Yamamoto
- William B. Bankhead
- Bess Furman
- Raymond Clapper
- Benjamin Davis
- Bennett Clark
- Joseph O'Mahoney
- Paulette Goddard
- Harry Hooker
- Henry Jones
- Thomas E. Dewey
- Mary Churchill
- Rommie
- Snuffy
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
- John Gunther
- George Durno
- Nan
- Dickens
- David Lilienthal
- Douglas
- Doris Fleeson
- Lord Beaverbrook
- Joe Lash
- Edgar Kaiser
- Robert Patterson
- Norman Davis
- Joseph Kennedy
- Corinne Robinson Alsop
- Hermann Goering
- George Patton
- Glenn Martin
- Jean-François Darlan
- Pamela Churchill Harriman
- Diana Hopkins Halsted
- Mrs. James
- Charles Palmer
- Donald Nelson
- Aubrey Williams
- Craig
- Frank Wilson
- Joseph Rauh
- Basil O'Connor
- Inez Sauer
- Anatole Litvak
- Nancy Cook
- Anna Rosenberg
- Margaret Truman
- Charles de Gaulle
- Benito Mussolini
- John Cudahy
- Henry Ford
- Louise Hopkins
- Joseph Goebbels
- Jimmy Dunne
- Dr. Frank Lahey
- Barbara Dudley
- Thurman Arnold
- Madame Chiang
- Curtis Roosevelt
- Earl Warren
- Charles Bohlen
- John Winant
- Byron Johnson
- Hideki Tojo
- Miss Chaney
- Averell Harriman
- Neville Chamberlain
- Maude Gray
- Ed Flynn
- Earl Miller
- Douglas MacArthur
- Winston Estes
- Trude Pratt Lash
- Harold Stark
- Frederick Patterson
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Raymond Moley
- George Washington
- Queen Wilhelmina
- John Boettiger
- Mrs. Henry Wallace
- Harry Truman
- John Pehle
- Eleanor Wotkyns Roosevelt
- Dr. John Harper
- Will Clayton
- David Wyman
- Humphrey Bogart
- Louis Johnson
- Charles Kikuchi
- Maggie Parks
- Betsey Cushing
- Laura Delano
- Erwin Rommel
- Abraham Lincoln
- Irvin McDuffie
- Jonathan Wainwright
- Alben Barkley
- Margaret Suckley
- Clark Foreman
- James Dunn
- James Sloan
- Miss Tully
- Milton Webster
- James Forrestal
- Granny
- Anne Lindsay Clark
- Robert Sherwood
- Bernard Asbell
- Ann Rochon
- Richard Strobel
- Lord Ismay
- Wendell Willkie
- Adolf Berle
- William Emerson
- William Leahy
- Elizabeth Read
- Harold Smith
- William Shirer
- Malvina Thompson
- Ted Nakashima
- Bob Hannegan
- Barbara Mueller Curtis
- Sergio Osmeña
- W. H. Thompson
- Judge Marion Harron
- Henry Woodring
- William Randolph Hearst
- Herbert Hoover
- Pa Watson
- Mary McCleod Bethune
- Bess Truman
- David Brinkley
- Faye Emerson
- Tom Connally
- Eric Larrabee
- Jan Karski
- Robert Jackson
- Mike Reilly
- Walter Reuther
- Molly Panter-Downes
- Bruce Catton
- Edward Stettinius
- Dorie Miller
- Missy LeHand
- Patrick Malin
- Geoffrey Ward
- Frank Walker
- Martha Bulloch
- Frank Maloney
- Sidney Hillman
- Alf Landon
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Rhett
- King Haakon
- Mary Willett
- Jim Rowe
- Paul McNutt
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Juliana
- Thomas Jefferson
- Dean Acheson
- Roberta Barrows
- William O. Douglas
- Edward Kowalick
- I. F. Stone
- Maury Maverick
- Anne O'Hare McCormick
- Jane Scarborough
- Napoleon
- Frances Perkins
- Dr. James Paullin
- Quincy
- Marvin McIntyre
- Brehon Somervell
- Hewitt Wheless
- Colgate Darden
- Sam Rosenman
- Odell Waller
- Steve Early
- Mayris Chaney Martin
- Marguerite LeHand
- Ernie Pyle
- Justine Polier
- Mr. Hopkins
- Grant McConnell
- Katherine Lenroot
- Egbert Curtis
- Franco
- Marguerite Collins
- Lewis Feuer
- Mark Sullivan
- Winthrop Rutherfurd
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Harry Woodring
- Harry Hopkins
- Melvyn Douglas
- Sybil Lewis
- Elinor Morgenthau
- Robert Hopkins
- Sistie
- Walter Short
- David Walsh
- Jesse Jones
- Sam Rayburn
- Jay Moffat
- Grace Tully
- Sumner Welles
- Albert Speer
- Charles Lindbergh
- Francis Biddle
- Eleanor Seagraves
- Marquis Childs
- Marion Dickerman
- Lillian Parks
- Tommy Corcoran
- Louis Howe
- William Barber
- Leon Henderson
- Lizzie McDuffie
- Jean Byers
- Miss LeHand
- Merriman Smith
- Dillon Myer
- Arthur Goldschmidt
- Pauli Murray
- Ruth Googins
- James H. Doolittle
- Fala
- Sarah Churchill
- Paul Reynaud
- Eliot Janeway
- Jimmy Byrnes
- Mademoiselle Souvestre
- Harold Ickes
- Mrs. Churchill
- Walter White
- Al Smith
- Jiro Ishihara
- Henri Giraud
- Ethel Barrymore
- John McCloy
- MacKenzie King
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
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First Sentence edit
On nights filled with tension and concern, Franklin Roosevelt performed a ritual that helped him to fall asleep.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1994
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Page Count: 759
Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Publication Date: 1994
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Page Count: 759
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1995: History)
- Ambassador Book Award (1995: Biography and Autobiography)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.9170922
Subjects edit
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( R ) › Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › History › Military › World War II › Home Front
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › United States
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
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