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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 ...
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys is a 1987 book written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon & Schuster. It covers two Boston Irish American families, the Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds, from John F. Fitzgerald's baptism to John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inauguration. Upon its release, the book's insightfulness and detail were generally ...
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Throughout the 1960s, Doris Kearns and Richard Goodwin, who eventually married but didn’t meet each other until 1972 — were separately and famously involved in presidential politics.
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Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud — American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin is a 2004 non-fiction book, written by Peter Charles Hoffer, that covers the historiography of U.S. History in Part 1 and the controversies surrounding Stephen Ambrose, Michael Bellesiles, Joseph Ellis, and Doris Kearns Goodwin in Part 2.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and presidential historian, for “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” with David Von Drehle, 7 p.m. June 12, Unity Temple on ...
The Bully Pulpit is the seventh book by Doris Kearns Goodwin. She spent seven years researching the book. [2] Goodwin stated that initially she wished to write a history of the Progressive Era and Theodore Roosevelt, but determined Taft to be "far more sympathetic if flawed" than she first considered, which resulted in the book centering around the evolving relationship of Roosevelt and ...