![]() Instead, Americans were producing automobiles and washing machines. There were no munitions factories or military draft. ![]() He was worried that the United States was not prepared for war at all. The book opens in May 1940, with FDR receiving the terrible news that Hitler's armies had attacked Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France. Goodwin becomes a psychoanalyst, who delves into their childhood traumas, emotional lives, family relationships, and even their extra-marital affairs, to create an understanding of them as human beings. It is also a psychohistory about Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. ![]() Goodwin's idea was to write a history of World War II, not from a military standpoint, but rather, about what happened here in the United States. This book is entitled No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. ![]()
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