From the bestselling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedysand Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world.

Using diaries, interviews, and White House records of the president"s and first lady"s comings and goings, Goodwin paints a detailed, intimate portrait not only of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime but of the Roosevelts themselves and their extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family, many of whom lived with them in the White House.

Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, No Ordinary Time relates the unique story of how Franklin Roosevelt led the nation to victory against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor"s essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society.

1. "The Decisive Hour Has Come"

2. "A Few Nice Boys with BB Guns"

3. "Back to the Hudson" 

4. "Living Here Is Very Oppressive"

5. "No Ordinary Time" 

6. "I Am a Juggler"  

7. "I Can"t Do Anything About Her"

8. "Arsenal of Democracy" 

9. "Business As Usual"  

10. "A Great Hour to Live" 

11. "A Completely Changed World"

12. "Two Little Boys Playing Soldier"

13. "What Can We Do to Help?" 

14. "By God, If It Ain"t Old Frank!"

15. "We Are Striking Back"

16. "The Greatest Man I Have Ever Known" 

17. "It Is Blood on Your Hands" 

18. "It Was a Sight I Will Never Forget" 

19. "I Want to Sleep and Sleep" 

20. "Suspended in Space" 

21. "The Old Master Still Had It" 

22. "So Darned Busy" 

23. "It Is Good to Be Home" 

24. "Everybody Is Crying" 

25. "A New Country Is Being Born" 

Afterword 

A Note on Sources 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Acknowledgments

Index