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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.

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The Bully Pulpit will be released on October 01, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook Reflowable, Compact Disk, Audio Download, eBook
May 15, 2013
No Ordinary Time will be released on October 01, 2013 in Hardcover, Compact Disk
May 12, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from No Ordinary Time
Oct 19, 2012
Team of Rivals will be released on October 16, 2012 in Compact Disk
Oct 16, 2012
Team of Rivals is now available in Compact Disk
Oct 16, 2012
Team of Rivals will be released on October 16, 2012 in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
Oct 16, 2012
Team of Rivals is now available in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
Oct 16, 2012
Oct 04, 2012
Audio Excerpt:
Team of Rivals
Jul 20, 2012
My Thoughts Be Bloody is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 19, 2010
My Thoughts Be Bloody will be released on October 19, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 26, 2010
Wait Till Next Year will be released on November 24, 2009 in eBook
Nov 24, 2009
Wait Till Next Year is now available in eBook
Nov 24, 2009
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No Ordinary Time
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India Infoline, May 16, 2013
...Tony Kushner, based in part on the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. As a 2013 Oscar and -winner for his performance as America's 16th president, Daniel Day-Lewis leads an all-star cast including...
USA Today, May 14, 2013
...It's difficult to name another memoir with such raw and devastating honesty. 18. No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin. If I could have dinner with anyone famous, I might choose Goodwin, whose historical knowledge blows me away. Published in 1995,...
Marina del Rey Argonaut, May 9, 2013
...Renowned historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will give the undergraduate commencement address at Loyola Marymount University at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11 in the Sunken Garden. Goodwin is a biographer and political...
River Falls Journal, May 2, 2013
...wonder about what will happen to the time-honored art of letter writing. Apparently, I’m not alone. Recently Doris Kearns Goodwin, noted biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, gave a speech at House of Hope...
Broadway World, May 2, 2013
...Picture. Most recently, Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals," with a screenplay by Tony Kushner. The film opened November 9th to critical acclaim and...
Forbes.com, May 1, 2013
...There is evidence aplenty. Few had not heard the term "Team of Rivals" from either the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin or the constant references to President Obamaâs cabinet. Fast forward to the blockbuster movie "Lincoln," a powerful and serious work, a...
HamptonRoads.com, April 28, 2013
...News: Local | Music & Nightlife | Celebrity Guides: Events | Movies | Television if you go Who Doris Kearns Goodwin at the Norfolk Forum When 8:15 p.m. Tuesday Where Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Blvd., Norfolk Cost $40, available online...
West Hartford Patch, May 10, 2013
...Andy Mandell led a lively round of bidding.  The auction was generously sponsored by Hoffman Lincoln.   Doris Kearns Goodwin, the guest speaker, gave an engaging speech about the lives and politics of many of our former Presidents including Abraham...
Capital Times, May 10, 2013
...was more of an evolutionary than revolutionary thinker. The book “Team of Rivals” by Pulitzer Prize winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin reveals Lincoln’s penchant for shaping his words through “the process of cumulative thought. He would reduce...
Marina del Rey Argonaut, May 9, 2013
...Renowned historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will give the undergraduate commencement address at Loyola Marymount University at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11 in the Sunken Garden. Goodwin is a biographer and political...
Los Angeles Archdiocese Tidings, May 9, 2013
...Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin and L.A. Times columnist/Emmy recipient Patt Morrison are among commencement speakers at three Catholic college graduation ceremonies this weekend. On May...
Plumbing Engineer, May 9, 2013
...NFPA President and CEO James Shannon will give his report. Next, the keynote address will be given by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a world-renowned historian and author of the best-selling book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Goodwin...
SDM Magazine, May 9, 2013
...loss control/prevention, public education and research. The general session from 1-3 p.m. on June 10 will include Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned historian and author of the best-selling book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham...
Boston Herald, May 9, 2013
...the Greater Boston economy and community, officials said. The event’s keynote speaker was acclaimed historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose work “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” was adapted into the Academy...