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Doris Kearns Goodwin
History, Baseball, and the Art of the Narrative
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Biography
Commencement address at
Dartmouth College
Excerpt from an essay by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Books
Wait Till Next Year : A
Memoir
Paperback - 261 pages (June 1998)
Lyndon Johnson and the
American Dream
Paperback (July 1991)
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Ranging from her days as assistant to President Lyndon Johnson to her passion for the Brooklyn Dodgers, historian and political commentator Doris Kearns Goodwin reveals key moments that shaped her life and forged her love of telling a good story.
Doris Kearns Goodwin earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she then taught for ten years as a Professor of Government. She worked as an assistant to President Johnson during his last year in the White House and later assisted him with his memoirs. In 1976, her book Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream was a New York Times bestseller.
Her next book, The Kennedys & The Fitzgeralds, was made into a six-hour miniseries that aired on ABC in 1990. And then in 1995, Dr. Goodwin was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II.
Dr. Goodwin is also a highly sought-after television commentator. She is a regular panelist on PBS' The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and appears frequently on Today, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, and Nightline. She is also an expert on baseball and served as an "on-air" consultant for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The History of Baseball.
In this lecture, Dr. Goodwin describes the link between her experiences as a professional historian and her early and long-lasting love affair with baseball. In the process, she draws upon memories that she has captured in her book, Wait Till Next Year: Summer Afternoons with My Father and Baseball. She also recounts various anecdotes involving President Johnson and one about her overnight stay at the White House, in the same room used by Winston Churchill during the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
This program was recorded October 20, 1997 at the Smithsonian Institution.
She is also the author of:
- The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American
Saga
Paperback - 960 pages 1 touchsto edition (January 2001) - No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Paperback - 759 pages Reprint edition (October 1995)
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