With an uncanny feel for detail and a novelist’s grasp of drama and depth, No Ordinary Time is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s account of the Roosevelt presidency during WWII highlights America’s changing domestic front. Goodwin brilliantly narrates the interrelationship between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and the destiny of the United States. She focuses upon the wartime White House, “a small, intimate hotel” frequented by Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Lorena Hickock, Missy LeHand, and other guests of the state and of the Roosevelts. Her portraits of ER and FDR are highly sympathetic, showing them heroically – but by no means flawlessly – leading an unwilling nation into the wartime effort that helped defeat the Axis and changed America unimaginably. Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines -Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. 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. A compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created.