Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin ( born January 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American historian.

Life

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the daughter of Helen Witt, nee Miller, and Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns. Father's side, she is of Irish descent. She grew up in Rockville Centre, New York. In 1964 she graduated from Colby College with a Bachelor. In 1968 she received his doctorate at Harvard University. As a White House Fellow, she worked at the White House from 1967 to 1969 and later became Assistant to the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Then she taught at Harvard and worked with Johnson on his biography. The book was published in 1977 as Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and became a bestseller.

For her 1995 published book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II she was a Pulitzer Prize for history and awarded a Charles Frankel Prize. One of her best-known and most successful books she published in 2005 with Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She was honored not only with a American History Book Prize and the Lincoln Prize. The book was made ​​into a film by Steven Spielberg and released in 2012 under the title Lincoln.

Goodwin since 1975 with Richard N. Goodwin, a political consultant and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson married. The couple has three children together.

Work

• Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream ( 1977)
• The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga ( 1987)
• Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997)
• Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage (2000)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln ( 2005)