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Aug 23, 2024 | 
wamu.org | Sandra Cisneros |Tamron Hall |Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bookworms rejoice! The Library of Congress’ National Book Festival returns to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday. From 9 AM until 8 in the evening, bibliophiles will get the chance to peruse the festival’s offerings, get books signed by their favorite authors, and listen in to book talks with the writers themselves. Among the featured authors is actor turned children’s book author Max Greenfield.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Daniel Schlozman |Sam M. Rosenfeld |Jessica Mathews |Doris Kearns Goodwin
In This Review In This Review The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party PoliticsThe authors are passionate believers in the vital role that the major political parties should play in American democracy, one they fear both parties have relinquished over the past half century.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
history.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin
“It was a dismal time,” my husband Dick recalled one morning in 2016, after opening an overflowing box of materials he had saved from the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
history.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin
“It was a dismal time,” my husband Dick recalled one morning in 2016, after opening an overflowing box of materials he had saved from the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
thewesterlysun.com | Cassie Skobrak |Doris Kearns Goodwin
The 2024 Summer Olympics officially begin this week! I vividly remember the first year I watched the Olympics as a child, and how I was glued to the screen, so inspired by the incredible athleticism of the competitors. It happened to be the Summer Olympics of 1996, when Kerri Strugg competed on the vault with an injured ankle, clinching the gold for the U.S. gymnastics team. I knew in that moment that I wanted to be a gymnast — the best gymnast — just like her.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin
Moderator Howard K. Smith sat between Senator John Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon as they appeared on a television studio monitor set during their debate in Chicago, Sept. 26, 1960.AnonymousWhen my husband Richard Goodwin turned 80, he finally decided to survey some 300 boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that he had carted around, largely unexamined, for 50 years.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin |Ruby Shamir |Saundra Mitchell |Sarah- SoonLing Blackburn
by Doris Kearns Goodwin ; adapted by Ruby Shamir ; illustrated by Amy June Bates ‧A solid exploration of the path from childhood to presidency. A young readers’ version of Goodwin’s Leadership (2018), adapted by Shamir, that also incorporates material from no fewer than six of Goodwin’s previous works. This volume looks at the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and tries to explain how they grew up to become president.
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May 17, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns knew she had met someone special when Richard “Dick” Goodwin introduced himself in 1972. Dick was a Boston native who distinguished himself as a speechwriter in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the 1960s. Doris had served as a staffer to Lyndon Johnson in his final year as president. A friendship was started and within a few years led to their marriage.
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May 9, 2024 | 
washingtonian.com | Amiah Taylor |Jen Psaki |Doris Kearns Goodwin |Joan Nathan
Say MoreThe former White House press secretary–who’s now on MSNBC–spills about her time in President Biden’s briefing room and shares some thoughts on effective communication, dispensing advice on topics such as active listening. An Unfinished Love Story Combining memoir and biography, this book by the prominent presidential historian explores various aspects of the 1960s–and also the final years she was able to spend with her late husband.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin |Chris Vognar
“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Photo: Simon & SchusterA husband and wife, closer to the end of life than the beginning, pick through piles of old boxes and reminisce about the way they were. They laugh, they cringe, they mildly castigate and furiously debate. Some years later, a book recounts their excavation. It sounds like a vanity project, and in some ways it is. But these are no ordinary unpackers.
