How does Doris Kearns Goodwin use imagery in No Ordinary Time?

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They made an extraordinary team. (Eleanor) was more earnest, less devious, less patient, less fun, more uncompromisingly moral; he possessed the more trustworthy political talent, the more finely tuned sense of timing, the better feel for the citizenry, the smarter understanding of how to get things done. She could travel where he could not .. She was the agitator; he was the politician.