No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIModern · History, Biography, Nonfiction
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
1994 · 633 pages · Nonfiction
62
Modern
★ 4.21 on Goodreads · 48K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 16 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1995). 4.21★ from 48K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
62Must-Read Score
- Readers81 out of 100 · counts 40%+36
- Critics63 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+23
- Bestseller17 out of 100 · counts 14%+3
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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Where it ranks
- #47 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #53 of the 154 history books we rank
- #94 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #219 of the 1,405 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (1995)
Reads as
True story
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