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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Né(e): January 04, 1943 – Brooklyn, New York, United States

Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American presidential historian and biographer whose work centers on U.S. political leadership, especially Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Johnson. Her notable books include Team of Rivals, No Ordinary Time, and Leadership in Turbulent Times; No Ordinary Time won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and Team of Rivals became a bestselling study of leadership.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin built her career by turning a fascination with American public life into a distinctive form of narrative history. Born in Brooklyn in 1943, she grew up in a family culture shaped by storytelling and memory; she has described learning to recount Brooklyn Dodgers games for her father and listening to her mother’s stories, experiences that sharpened both her narrative instinct and her feeling for character. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College in 1964, earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1968, and later taught there. The decisive turning point came when, as a White House Fellow and a young critic of the Vietnam War, she was nevertheless drawn into Lyndon B. Johnson’s circle, worked with him in the White House and on his memoirs, and transformed that improbable encounter into Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Doris-Kearns-Goodwin?utm_source=openai))

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A finely developed sense of timing—knowing when to wait and when to act—would remain in Lincoln’s repertoire of leadership skills the rest of his life
-Leadership
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But the separation by night belied the partnership by day -- a partnership that would help change the face of the country in the years ahead
-No Ordinary Time
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He made people feel that life would be lived more fully if they helped their fellow man
-Interview: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The most important thing a president has to do—knowing he has limited capital—is to decide where to put his ambitions and where to hold back
-Meet the Press
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What they did that day will always be in our memory—and it has to be
-Remembering the 75th anniversary of D-Day
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Free speech…it’s fundamental to our country, and if people can’t use humor at moments when things are tough, then we’ve lost something
-Presidents, Satire, and Free Speech
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President Obama has to make the country understand that he is framing a debate on the importance of government
-Charlie Rose
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His success was both a product of his times and his unique qualities
-Team of Rivals

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