Doris kearns goodwin lincoln biography

Doris Kearns Goodwin and her husband Dick had front-row seats into America’s highest reaches of power during one of the most tumultuous decades in America’s history: the 1960s.

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Dick Goodwin worked closely with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House, and later with Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy on their presidential campaigns and initiatives. Doris began her career as a White House Fellow during the Johnson Administration and worked with him on his presidential memoirs, before launching her storied career as a presidential historian.

Her eighth book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, chronicles that extraordinary decade through the lens of what Dick and Doris witnessed and experienced.

It weaves together biography, memoir and history, providing an unprecedented view into the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK andMLK—and events of that decade. HISTORY spoke with Goodwin about the book and what she learned in writing it.

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