Doris Kearns Goodwin
Title: TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Biography of Abraham Lincoln, centered on his mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each of his “rivals” energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. Lincoln’s understanding of human behavior and motivation enabled […]
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Title: The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Family friend and confidant Doris Kearns Goodwin tells the story of two families whose lives shaped our times. This magnificent real-life saga reveals the ambitions that built a dynasty of American royalty–and the passions that nearly destroyed it. Soon to be an ABC-TV miniseries.
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Title: Wait Till Next Year – A Memoir
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee […]
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Title: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, […]
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Title: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Description:
“No Ordinary Time” is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines– Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, […]
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