Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.By Rhododendrites - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69711843

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. She is also a partner in Pastimes Productions, a new independent production company.

Goodwin is best known for her biographies of U.S. presidents, which have included Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, the Roosevelts and many more. She earned the Pulitzer Prize in History for “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.”

Her most recent book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018),” was an instant bestseller. 

Born in Brooklyn on January 4, 1943 to immigrant parents, Goodwin attended South Side High School in New York, Colby College, and Harvard University. 

Her career as a presidential historian and author began when she was a 24-year-old graduate student at Harvard University and was selected to join the White House Fellows, a prestigious program for public service leadership.

Her book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” inspired Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln,” and is an inspiration for business and political leaders, including President Barack Obama.

A political commentator, Goodwin is often called upon to speak about burning issues of our times, from politics to the COVID pandemic, and the future of democracy. On MSNBC’s 11^th Hour, Goodwin claims that the crux of preserving our democracy and “the fight of her lifetime” is our right to vote. This is not a partisan battle, she says, and calls for state legislatures to create public sentiment around the issue of preserving our democracy through guarding and expanding voting rights. You can expect that Doris Kearns Goodwin will be speaking out a lot more on this issue in the days to come.

https://doriskearnsgoodwin.com

The following section was added by The MY HERO Project in 2024:  

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s latest book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2024. Doris’ husband Richard (Dick), having been a writer and presidential advisor, had kept more than three hundred boxes of containing various documents such as letters and diaries that he had saved throughout his career.[1] The couple, upon looking through the boxes, realized that Dick had compiled an archive which outlined a significant period of U.S. history. In An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, Kearns Goodwin intertwines the moments documented in Dick’s archive with her own personal history. On the book, Bill Gates wrote:

Whether you're a history buff or a sucker for real-life romances, Doris Kearns Goodwin has you covered. Her new autobiography, An Unfinished Love Story, is one of those rare books that seamlessly blends personal history with political insight. I can't recommend it enough.[2]