No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

saw many things the

this journey that later provoked

observed, “Eleanor yearned to be

without

humanitarian zeal with her

arrive” was delightfully simple

accomplish and that her work would

observed. “She was on terms of

and intelligent young man with whom it was

Harry Hopkins

only reinforced her case.

was up for an early breakfast,

believing that

Outside the train, as the sun

world, and host, was never more

Service Agent Milton Lipson

explained in The Nation.

Treasury Secretary Henry

on such intimate terms

the Jewish element, whose interests

to visit the shelter, Roosevelt

expecting the prime minister until the

or less

industry or the village

incentives was deep, and signaled

free to purchase an apartment

dressing room, a maid’s room,

zeros. During

the ceremony