About Doris
Doris Kearns Goodwin has spent more than five decades as a historian, author, and presidential scholar. Born in 1943, she earned her PhD in government from Harvard and served as a White House Fellow during the Johnson administration in 1967. She published her first book, "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream," in 1977, launching her literary career. Her book "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt" won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.
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- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
- Biographies of US presidents
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
- Consulting on and appearing in documentaries
- First woman admitted to Boston Red Sox locker room
- Historian
- Author
- Presidential scholar
- Public speaker
- Former sports journalist
- Former Harvard government instructor
- History
- Biography
- Presidential politics
- American politics
- Democracy
- Presidential leadership
- American history
- Political history
- Leadership in times of change
- American Civil War
- Progressive Era
- 1960s history
- Baseball history
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