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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin

historian, 1995 Pulitzer Prize, history

Doris Kearns Goodwin, a former Harvard professor and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, is the author of several New York Times best-sellers, including No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, which was awarded the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in History and her latest book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [more].

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Peter Gammons come together to talk about baseball for the 15th year anniversary of Burns' Baseball documentary series.

Richard Goodwin: Two Men of Florence

Richard Goodwin

Playwright Richard Goodwin and his wife, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, discuss the Huntington Theatre's production of Richard's Two Men of Florence, a drama about the struggle between Galileo Galilei, a man of science, and Pope Urban VIII, a man of faith.

Tribute to Arthur Schlesinger

November 27, 2006

Historians Alan Brinkley, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Sean Wilentz look back at the extraordinary life and career of Arthur Schlesinger, one of America's foremost historians. John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, moderates. Schlesinger was special assistant to President John F.

Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

December 18, 2005

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation's hi

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 944 pages

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1995)

Binding: Paperback, 768 pages

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (1991)

Binding: Paperback, 448 pages

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1998)

Binding: Paperback, 272 pages

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2001)

Binding: Paperback, 932 pages

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