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                                        No Ordinary Time:  Bio,

                                          F&E Roosevelt

The biography No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin reviews the relationship and complex partnership between

Franklin Roosevelt and his wife first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. President Roosevelt’s main focus during the 1940’s was winning the war while his wife tackled social and domestic programs like housing, civil rights and welfare. She was determined to preserve the gains of the New Deal. Franklin and Eleanor lead America in a very difficult time. A time of war and social decline . It was no ordinary time, a period a struggle and suffering for many people , the  period just out of the great depression, yet they made an extraordinary contribution in changing not only Americans lives but the entire world.