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Ladataan... No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (vuoden 1994 painos)Tekijä: Doris Kearns Goodwin (Tekijä)
TeostiedotNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (tekijä: Doris Kearns Goodwin)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. As always, DKG tells it like a story AND marshals the historical facts, synthesizing a great and illuminating read that easily holds your interest. FDR, Eleanor, Churchill, Stalin, and all the other players come to life as they participate in the great events of the time. Goodwin captures the flaws and the missteps as well as the heroic and brilliant actions. ( ) FROM AMAZON: 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. I really appreciated the details of our run up to WWII. I was surprised at the level of anti-Semitism in the country. I hadn't understood the full depth of the situation England was in, and their desperate need for help. I had not understood the magnitude of the loss at Dunkirk. I was amazed at the productivity of the US manufacturing machine, once Roosevelt was able to to get it cranked up. I was amazed at the depth of the isolationist feeling in the USA, and how delicately FDR had to handle to movement toward war preparation. I was surprised at the level of support we provided Russia (who also needed help on the Eastern front). A tidbit: Stalin refused to fly! The Japanese soldier's commitment to their casue (or theri emperor) was incredible. I was surprised and disappointed in the inability of so many of our national leaders (both business and govt) to see the implications of the German war machine. I was surprised at the depth of the engagement of Eleanor in the matters of social justice and civil rights. An excellent read. I read this book at the recommendation of a friend who thinks I am too harsh on FDR's legacy. That harshness, sadly, began in early 1973 when I read While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy, by Arthur D. Morse, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/302834.Arthur_D_Morse. It developed further when I read 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492830-1944, by Jay Winik. FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16691938-fdr-and-the-jews, tempered this view somewhat, but not much. My friend believes this should temper my views further.The book is definitely worthwhile as a good picture of that period in history and an effort to paint FDR in a good light. To quote someone, when you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. The writing in the book as in most of Goodwin's work, is excellent, and is her analysis. And despite her efforts to build up FDR and find some fault with Eleanor, Eleanor deservedly comes out better. Eleanor cast the model for a modern First Lady. FDR was, at best, a charismatic leader who largely effectuated decisions made by others or forced by circumstances. Truman, by contrast, was a decision-maker. It's hard not to rate a book based on one's liking for the people who are the subject of the book, so I will give the book a "4". I felt the book focused too much on unknowable sexual and personal issues. The book is solidly worth reading and I highly recommend it. ================== ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Viittaukset tähän teokseen muissa lähteissä. Englanninkielinen Wikipedia (27)The United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression, and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. At the center of the country's transformation was the complex partnership of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin knew the war could not be won without focusing the energies of the American people and expanding his base of support -- making his peace with conservative leaders and gaining the cooperation of big business. Eleanor, meanwhile, felt the war would not be worth winning if the old order of things at home prevailed, and was often at odds with her husband in her efforts to preserve the gains of the New Deal and achieve reforms in civil rights, housing, and welfare programs. While Franklin manned the war room at the White House and met with Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mackenzie King, and other world leaders to discuss strategy for the war abroad, Eleanor crisscrossed the country, visiting the American people, seeing how the war and policies her husband made in Washington affected them as individuals. 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: Missy LeHand, FDR's "other wife" and secretary; Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest friend and adviser; the president's indomitable mother, Sara; the Roosevelts' daughter, Anna; Eleanor's close friends Lorena Hickock and Joe Lash; Crown Princess Martha of Norway; FDR's former lover Lucy Rutherfurd, who, in a final, painful blow to Eleanor, was with him when he died. Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, Goodwin relates the unique story of how Franklin Roosevelt, surrounded by his small circle of intimates, led the nation to military victory abroad against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor's essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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