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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin — book cover

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Pulitzer Prize · 1995 · Winner
HistoryISBN 9781476750576

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for History1995Winner

About the Author

Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is an acclaimed American historian and biographer specializing in U.S. presidents, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (1995) and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005), which inspired Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln. She has authored several New York Times bestsellers, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976) and recent works like An Unfinished Love Story (2024), and received numerous honors such as the Lincoln Prize and Carnegie Medal.

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