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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential Historian, Author to Present

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orld-renowned presidential historian,
public speaker, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
for  No Ordinary Time: Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home
Front in World War II, Doris Kearns
Goodwin is the author of six critically acclaimed books, including her
most recent, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft,
and the Golden Age of Journalism, a
dynamic historical portrayal of the
first decade during the Progressive
era. This was a tumultuous time as
the nation was becoming unseamed
and reform was in the air.  Film and
television rights have been acquired
by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks
Studios for the book, making this
her second juncture with Spielberg,
as they worked together on  "Lincoln," based in part on Goodwin's
award-winning  book,  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln, winner of the Lincoln Prize (Photo by Eric Levin)
and the inaugural Book Prize for
show how they first recognized leadership
American History.
In Goodwin's new book, Leadership: In qualities within themselves and were recogTurbulent Times, available Fall 2018,  she nized by others as leaders.
At the age of 24, Goodwin became a
draws upon four of the presidents she has
studied most closely - Abraham Lincoln, White House Fellow and served as an asTheodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, sistant to President Lyndon Johnson during
and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) - to his last year in the White House. She later

worked with him in the preparation of his
memoirs. Goodwin became a professor at her
alma mater, Harvard University where she
taught Government, which included a course
on the American Presidency.  As a young
senator, former President Barack Obama,
after reading Goodwin's Wait till Next Year:
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,
telephoned her out of the blue requesting to
meet to discuss the book - and a friendship
was established. During his Presidency, Mr.
Obama occasionally invited her, and a few
other select presidential historians to the
White House to discuss past presidents, their

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Auditorium Speaker Series

Saturday 6/23, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Sponsored by Simon & Schuster

legacies, and on occasion to request counsel.
He granted Goodwin an "exit interview"
for Vanity Fair as he prepared to leave office
that focused on what could be considered
his own presidential legacy.
Goodwin's appearance is sponsored by
Simon & Schuster.
Get details and add to your schedule now.

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