Presidential Historian & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author; Author of "Team of Rivals"; Executive Producer for History Channel
Doris Kearns Goodwin Biography
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and New York Times No. 1 bestselling writer whose work has influenced how Americans understand their history and the leaders who shaped it. Goodwin's career as a presidential historian and author began when, as a graduate student at Harvard, she was selected to join the White House Fellows program. Despite having co-authored an article calling for the removal of President Lyndon B. Johnson from office, Johnson invited Goodwin to work at the White House, where she later assisted him in writing his memoirs. Goodwin earned a doctorate in government from Harvard University, where she taught government, including a course on the American presidency.
Goodwin's account of the Johnson presidency, "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream," established her national reputation as a historian. She received the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II." "No Ordinary Time" also received the Harold Washington Literary Award, the New England Bookseller Association Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and The Washington Monthly Book Award. Her book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" explores President Lincoln's relationships with his cabinet and became a national bestseller, winning the Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History. "Team of Rivals" served as the primary source for the film "Lincoln."
Goodwin's other books include the Carnegie Medal winner "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism." Her work has been recognized with honors such as the Lincoln Prize, the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Prize, the New England Book Award, and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Goodwin was the first historian to receive the Lincoln Leadership Prize from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. Her book "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller and is being developed as a feature film.
In addition to her writing, Goodwin executive produced the documentary miniseries "Washington" for History Channel, with additional miniseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt. Goodwin has served as a consultant and has been interviewed for documentaries on Presidents Johnson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln, the Kennedy family, and on Ken Burns' "The History of Baseball" and "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History." Goodwin is frequently called upon by news media, television hosts, companies, educational institutions, government agencies, and nonprofits to share her knowledge of leadership and provide historical context for current events. Her expertise in American history and presidential leadership continues to inform public discourse.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Speaking Topics
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Leadership Lessons From The 1960s: A Front-Row Seat To History
America’s “historian-in-chief” Doris Kearns Goodwin shares powerful insights from her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, providing a front-row seat to the corridors of power based on her own White House experiences and those of her husband, Richard Goodwin. Offering a captivating look at one of America’s most transformative decades and the leaders who shaped it, Goodwin reveals intimate examples and keen analysis of iconic figures—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—demonstrating how they influenced and navigated change, supplying invaluable insights for today’s leaders.
Drawing poignant parallels between the turbulent 1960s and our own complex time, Goodwin offers timeless lessons that illustrate how effective leaders can galvanize public sentiment and drive progress, overcoming even the greatest of challenges.
Through her masterful storytelling, audiences will gain fresh perspectives on leadership—change management, recruiting talent, decision making, teamwork, communication, emotional intelligence, resilience, and much more—that is sure to inspire and guide today’s leaders.
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Leadership in Turbulent Times: Virtual Fireside Chat or Lecture
At this challenging time in our nation’s history, as we face a cascading series of crises—a fight to protect democracy in Ukraine while we worry about the fragility of our democracy at home, a country more polarized than any time since the Civil War, “America’s historian-in-chief” Doris Kearns Goodwin puts this defining time in historical context. Not since the 1850s has our country been so politically divided, not since the Great Depression and World War II have we experienced such a string of collective hardships, and not since the 1960s have we struggled so for social and economic equality.
Drawing from her most recent book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Goodwin transports us back in time to provide perspective and analysis as she helps us understand how the presidents she’s studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson—provide proof that as a country and a people we’ve been through most difficult times before and came through stronger. History, as Goodwin demonstrates, provides lessons, solace, and even hope.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Videos
America's Book Club: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin is “America's historian-in-chief” according to "New York" magazine.
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