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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. SIGNED. Collector's Edition. Near Fine. Signed by Doris Kearns Goodwin on a special signature page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Thirty glossy black and white photographs. Bound in black leather with raised bands to spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré end papers, hubbed spine, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. Printed on archival paper. The gilt has some faint, small scratches to side fore-edges, else bright and fine. Signed Certificate of Authenticity and "Collector's Notes" included. 759 pages. 6 X 9½ " tall.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, No Ordinary Time is a chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in US history. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin weaves together a number of storylines — the Roosevelt's marriage and 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. Goodwin melds these into an intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.
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Synopsis
With an extraordinary collection of details, 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. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.
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- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3943
- Title
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II
- Author
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Easton Press
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Pages
- 759
- Size
- 6x 9.5
- Weight
- 5.00 lbs
- Keywords
- signed, easton press, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collector's Editions; Easton Press;
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