Who is Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Doris Kearns first came to the attention of President Lyndon Johnson when she co-wrote a very critical article on Johnson for the New Republic magazine. Several months later, when they met in person at the White House, Johnson asked her to work with him in the White House. He soon asked her to help write his memoirs.
During and after Johnson's Presidency, Kearns visited Johnson many times, and, three years after his death, published her first book, Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. She drew on the friendship and conversations with Johnson, supplemented by careful research and critical analysis, to present a picture of his accomplishments, failures and motivations.
She married Richard Goodwin in 1975. Her husband, an advisor to John and Robert Kennedy as well as a writer, helped her to gain access to people and papers for her story on the Kennedy family, begun in 1977 and finished ten years later. This book, too, was acclaimed critically, and was made into a television movie. The Kennedy book was the center of a storm of plagiarism charges in 2002.
In 1995 Doris Kearns Goodwin was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, No Ordinary Time. She then turned to writing a memoir of her own, about growing up as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Wait Till Next Year.
A lifelong baseball fan, Goodwin was interviewed extensively in Ken Burns's documentary Baseball. In 1997, she chronicled her devotion to the Brooklyn Dodgers in the book Wait Till Next Year. She regularly appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
She is a regular political commentator for television and radio.
Who should provide political commentary?
Doris Kearns Goodwin is often called upon to provide historical political analysis during elections and times of political crisis. I always find it interesting to see our current politicians and controversies placed within a historical perspective. Sometimes it is reassuring although sometimes it is just frightening. Often I think this perspective is more useful than that of current political analysts because they are simply too close to the people and issues at hand. Who do you think should provide political commentary?
Who should provide political commentary?
Modern political analysts
Historians
SofiaMann says:
It is very difficult to make an objective analysis. We are always involved. I guess that historians are more elements to make a balanced assessment.
Margo_Arrowsmith says:
Well, this particular historian is well worth listening to
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On Lincoln
We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' "
Three reasons to love Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. She really does her homework -- of course some of it she knows first hand but she has done some really interesting work
3. She has interesting insights that really make me think about things I haven't before.
What do you think of Doris Kearns Goodwin?
What can Lincoln tell us about leadership?
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Amazon Price: $10.00 (as of 05/31/2012)
What can the Roosevelts teach us?
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Amazon Price: $2.49 (as of 05/31/2012)
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- Doris Kearns Goodwin | Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Presidential Historian
- Doris Kearns Goodwin | Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Presidential Historian. Author of 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' (2005)
- Dartmouth News - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Commencement address - 06/14/98
- Dartmouth News - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Commencement address - 06/14/98
- A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin | The American Prospect
- A Conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin | The American Prospect
Learn more about Johnson
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Amazon Price: $7.95 (as of 05/31/2012)
Are you a baseball fan?
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Amazon Price: $2.66 (as of 05/31/2012)
Doris Kearns Goodwin in the blogs
- 'Team of Rivals' author to speak in Auburn
- By Charley Hannagan / The Post-Standard View full sizeMichelle Gabel / The Post-StandardFile photo of Doris Kearns Goodwin as the first lecturer in the 1997-98 season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series. Auburn, NY -- Historian and Pulitzer Prize ...
- Why Jeremiah Wright matters -- still (Part II)
- About John F. Kennedy's relationship with family patriarch Joseph, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says: "There was no way (Jack) thought he could be what Joe. Jr. had been to his father. So the two of them circled around each other, ...
- Pizarro: YWCA of Silicon Valley gets Jackie Joyner-Kersee for October luncheon
- Past guest stars include historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former presidential press secretary Dee Dee Myers and actress Alfre Woodard. If you're interested in attending, more information is available at www.ywca-sv.org. LET THERE BE LIGHT: A couple of ...
- Warren, Obama, and Harvard's Culture of Corruption
- They may have been taking their cues on stonewalling from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. A Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Ph.D., Goodwin was serving on the university's governing board in 2002 when rightly accused of a word theft so felonious she ...
Learn more about Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's Extraordinary Era: The Man and His Times
Amazon Price: $15.35 (as of 05/31/2012)
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What do you say about Doris Kearns Goodwin?
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genxster
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- I'm always thrilled to see her on NewsHour or Meet the Press. She's so passionate about history. I love her enthusiasm. She seems to truly love what she's doing.
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Kimbesa Jan 29, 2011 @ 9:38 pm | delete
- Very interested in what she has to say, her books, and her views on current events. Thanks!
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SofiaMann
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- A very interesting lens. Congratulations.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
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- I love seeing her on MSNBC, she always adds something
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