These two celebrated people are presented as human rather than only as the remarkable politicians and diplomats they were. Yet, their instincts in world and domestic affairs are also seen clearly throughout the text. They both overcame extraordinary challenges, Franklin's were physical, Eleanor's were emotional, and both remade their lives out of the tragedies that befell them. Both became public servants and both went on to make a difference in the world, each in their own way. They touched the people who knew them personally and they touched the people of the world. From them people gained hope and a feeling that one could in fact overcome tragedy and trouble. They had friends from all walks of life and from around the globe. In this book, the reader has a rare opportunity to become even more familiar with these two remarkable people.

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In Eleanor's opinion, however, Churchill and Franklin always stayed up far too late which worried her. In fact, she remarked to a friend, "If anything happened to that man I couldn't stand it. He is the truest friend." These are not the words of the cold, aloof, and sometimes jealous wife, which is so often promoted in biographies.

Hyde Park was his retreat, the place he could return to for peace, where he could relax and gain enough sustenance to continue in his duties as the President. Certainly, this is a different image than has been written before. Always readers have been told of his brilliance and his victories, his courage and his strength, seldom has the reader had the opportunity to see Franklin Roosevelt as a man who worried, who lost his energy and who retreated to a place where he always felt revived.

No Ordinary Time is unique in other ways, too. The reader is given a new and slightly different perception of life in the White House and in Hyde Park, both of which were always crowded with people. The Roosevelts were very seldom alone, especially during the war. Friends and advisers were constant guests in White House and friends were consistently with them at Hyde Park. Goodwin tells us that part of the reason for Franklin's constant invitations to friends was due to his paralysis; he couldn't get out to ìplayî golf or take walks so he kept himself surrounded by his friends to talk, view movies, or just be together.

Of their relationship, Goodwin says, they kept relating to one another, yearning for one another. Their relationship was a lot more alive than has been previously thought, Eleanor was his conscience, his top domestic advisor, and, often literally, his legs Goodwin goes on to report that towards the end of his life, Franklin told his son about his deep love for Eleanor, she was the most remarkable woman I have ever met For perhaps the first time in any biography of either or both the Roosevelt's, instead of an emphasis on

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