– Gloria Steinem, activist, author of Revolution from Within You will keep sentences in your mind, on your bulletin board, in your pocket and in your heart. “In No Ordinary Time, Jan Phillips has packed a lifetime of “AHA’s”-thoughts that suddenly give us clarity about ourselves and other selves, the world around us. We are the vessels of the Divine, agents of Supreme Intelligence, neutral cells of our home planet, and it is our job now to call God home, to tend to the kingdom that is all around us, and to create stories an cultures of hope and compassion. There is no Geppetto God out there pulling strings. Growing up spiritually is a requirement of us this hour. We are the myth-makers and co-creators of the 21st century, the prophets and writers of new sacred texts. It doesn’t hurt but the view most certainly changes.

It’s like being picked up by the shirtsleeves and carried to the mountaintop. It is Rumi meets-Teilhard, Catherine of Siena meets Dorothy Day-a compelling illustration of how spiritual practice leads to heightened creativity leads to inspired evolutionary action. It is the story of one woman’s journey from Catholicism to a new cosmology of global communion and co-creation. Goodwin has deftly reminded us just how extraordinary FDR and Eleanor were in ‘no ordinary times.Jan Phillips’ Book of Hours is a tapestry of threads from the arts, science, sacred texts and her own mystical poetry. “A thoroughly terrific and important work, a valuable addition to Roosevelt literature.

How their talents, insecurities, and demons impacted on the country and the world will be much better understood with the publication of this remarkable book.” “A tale rendered nearly seamless by Goodwin’s skills as a reporter and writer, and by the immense entanglement of her subjects’ private and public lives. The reader feels like a resident in the White House.”

“The Roosevelt marriage is endlessly gripping because it was so consequential. The sheer abundance of colorful biographical anecdotes and the cumulative weight of telling detail sustain an atmosphere of immediacy and leave a lastingly vivid impression.” An ambitiously conceived and imaginatively executed participant’s eye view of the United States in the war years.

“Goodwin has pulled off the double trick of making Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt seem so monumental as to have come from a very distant past, and at the same time so vital as to have been alive only yesterday.”

No ordinary time book