Wednesday, August 01, 2012
No Ordinary Time--FDR and Eleanor on the home front
Our September book club selection is No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's about FDR and Eleanor and the WWII White House. I'm slogging through it, but I didn't like FDR much before, and like him even less now. He extended the Depression by a decade, and then after rescinding the failed programs by 1943 since the war created full time employment, he relaunched his socialist dreams in 1944 (at least that's where I am now). And Eleanor's fertile mind an energy seemed behind much of what he did. But the author is a masterful and excellent writer and researcher. She definitely deserved the Pulitzer for the amount of detail she pulled together to recreate what seems like a minute by minute account of those years.
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I have to agree with you about Doris Kearns Godwin. She is a crack researcher.
I read it a Long time ago and really liked it. She write well and you feel like you really know the subject(s) when you are finish with the book.
I used to read her presidential biographies. Then she had that little plagiarism issue and her credibility was shot with me.
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