Doris Goodwin
Doris Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwinis an American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She has authored biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism...
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth4 January 1943
CityBrooklyn, NY
His book on Lincoln is not only a classic in the field ... it is a treasured resource,
When I first began working on my Lincoln book, nearly a decade ago, he generously invited me to his home so I could peruse his fabulous Lincoln library. He sat with me for hours, suggesting which sources were the most important to begin my journey.
In a second prepared statement, two directors, a retired pilot and a former executive of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, condemned the AMFA attack as ''totally misguided.
These are the kinds of moments when a president gives voice to the country. They're remembered forever, if it's done right.
Somebody said of Chase that he understood men as as a whole but not individual man.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
she said. ''I don't want to sound embarrassing, but he looks sensual.
It really stands by itself. I certainly don't know of any other like it.
That's the difficulty. We don't know what to do with the peace movement, what does it actually mean?
I hope I will be more empathetic and less quick to judge,
But if more mothers and more women connect to the losses over there, it could move like wildfire across the country.
If there was somebody you'd want to spend a night with, aside from Lincoln, it would be Seward. He reminded me a lot of (Winston) Churchill, this kind of larger-than-life figure.
By that time, I felt so emotional toward him. He didn't know, but I knew, that it wasn't going to last.
I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.