Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Doris Kearns Goodwin (2018)

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American historian .

Life

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the daughter of Helen Witt, nee Miller, and Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns. On her father's side, she is of Irish descent. She grew up in Rockville Center , New York . In 1964 she graduated from Colby College with a bachelor's degree . In 1968 she received her PhD from Harvard University . As a White House Fellow , she worked in the White House from 1967 and was later assistant to US President Lyndon B. Johnson until 1969 . She then taught at Harvard and worked with Johnson on his biography. The book was published as Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream in 1977 and became a bestseller.

For her book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II , published in 1995 , she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for History and a Charles Frankel Prize . She published one of her best known and most successful books in 2005 with Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln . She was not only awarded an American History Book Prize and Lincoln Prize . The book was also made into a film by Steven Spielberg and published in 2012 under the title Lincoln .

Goodwin has been married to Richard N. Goodwin , a policy advisor and speechwriter to John F. Kennedy , his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, since 1975 . The couple have three children together.

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  • Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1977)
  • The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (1987)
  • No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II (1995)
  • Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997)
  • Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage (2000)
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln , 2005, ISBN 978-0-684-82490-1 .
  • The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013)

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SURNAME Goodwin, Doris Kearns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodwin, Doris Helen Kearns (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City, United States