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In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [17] Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was, instead, assigned to ...
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game is a book written by John Sexton that discusses the game of baseball in the context of religion. The book is co-authored with Thomas Oliphant and Peter J. Schwartz; the foreword is written by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Sexton, a Catholic, grew up in New York City and as a young man was a Brooklyn ...
Leadership in Turbulent Times is a 2018 book by Doris Kearns Goodwin and was published by Simon & Schuster.The book covers the lives and leadership skills of four US Presidents Goodwin previously studied: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Doris Kearns Goodwin dives into political history with both her and her husband being involved in 1960s presidential work.
Aug. 17 — Doris Kearns Goodwin. The Pulitzer-Prize winning historian's books include "Wait Till Next Year," an acclaimed memoir of growing up in the 1950s in New York while in love with her ...
The book begins with an introduction where Goodwin explains how she plans to illuminate Lincoln's life: "In my own effort to illuminate the character and career of Abraham Lincoln, I have coupled the account of his life with the stories of the remarkable men who were his rivals for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination—New York senator William H. Seward, Ohio governor Salmon P. Chase ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C. Horton, are being honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy announced Friday that Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian, is receiving a Gold Medal for biography.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C. Horton, are being honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy announced ...