Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Remarkable Journey of America’s Acclaimed Historian, Pulitzer Prize Winner, and Master Storyteller of Presidential LeadershipBy Gerald A. Lewis

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Here it is — 3,906 characters, leaning hard into the dramatic hook while staying true to what's actually in the book: --- DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN The Remarkable Journey of America's Acclaimed Historian, Pulitzer Prize Winner, and Master Storyteller of Presidential Leadership She criticized a sitting president in print — and he hired her anyway. Then he danced with her at a White House ball, brought her into the Oval Office, and years later, walked her across his Texas ranch, confessing doubts he shared with almost no one else alive. That relationship turned a twenty-four-year-old graduate student into the historian who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize, help write the film that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar, and become one of the most trusted voices in America — right before nearly losing it all. This is the book that tells the whole story. Not the flattering highlight reel. The real one. Before she was interviewing presidents, she was a six-year-old at a Long Island kitchen table, reconstructing entire Brooklyn Dodgers games from memory to relay to her father, pitch by pitch, because he couldn't listen live. That instinct — turning scattered facts into a story someone could believe in — never left her. It carried her to Harvard, into Lyndon Johnson's White House during the most explosive year of his presidency, and eventually into the archives of Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and the Kennedys. Then, in 2002, it nearly destroyed her. Reporters discovered that passages in her book on the Kennedy family echoed another author's work almost word for word. She'd quietly settled with that author a decade earlier — and never told anyone. As the scandal widened, she resigned from the Pulitzer Prize board in disgrace, and critics openly called for her own Pulitzer to be revoked. Most biographies rush past this. This one doesn't blink. You get the timeline, the apology, the fallout — and the astonishing decade that followed, when she came back stronger than before. Inside, you'll discover: - The White House dance that rewrote her entire career, straight from a president she'd publicly tried to remove from office - How eight years alongside a dying ex-president's memories became the most intimate presidential research ever conducted - The full, unflinching account of the 2002 plagiarism scandal — what she hid, what she admitted, and how it almost ended everything - The literary marriage behind the scenes: her 42 years with speechwriter Richard Goodwin, the man who wrote Robert Kennedy's most famous words - How a disgraced historian rebuilt her reputation by writing the book that became Spielberg's Lincoln - The mentor who taught her that presidents aren't born powerful — they're built by crisis, exactly like she was - Why business schools and military academies now teach her books as leadership doctrine - What she's doing right now, in her ninth decade, still unwilling to stop This is a story about the price of ambition, the fragility of reputation, and the astonishing fact that the same instincts that made Doris Kearns Goodwin one of America's greatest storytellers are the exact instincts that almost ended her career. Her own life's work insists that no leader should be remembered for a single moment, good or bad. This book finally turns that unflinching standard back on her. If you loved Team of Rivals or No Ordinary Time, you've only read half her story. If you think you know how scandals end careers, her comeback will surprise you. Includes a complete timeline, reading guide, discussion questions, and bibliography. An…

Journey Identity Political Intrigue Coming of Age Psychological

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GenreBiography and Memoir, Other

Length4 hrs 17 mins

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1Introduction

2Introduction

3Chapter 1: A Curious Mind Is Born

4Chapter 2: Discovering the Power of Education

5Chapter 3: College Years and Finding Her Voice

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6Chapter 4: Entering Public Service

7Chapter 5: Inside the White House

8Chapter 6: Becoming a Historian

9Chapter 7: The First Major Success

10Chapter 8: Winning the Pulitzer Prize

11Chapter 9: Bringing Presidents to Life

12Chapter 10: Challenges Behind the Success

13Chapter 11: Leadership Lessons Across History

14Chapter 12: Becoming America’s Trusted Historian

15Chapter 13: Richard and Doris: A Marriage of Two Historians

16Chapter 14: Inspiring a New Generation

17Chapter 15: A Lifetime of Achievement

18Chapter 16: The Legacy of Storytelling

19Chapter 17: Beyond the Books

20Chapter 18: Inside the Archive — How the Books Get Made

21Chapter 19: Kearns Goodwin Among Her Contemporaries

22Chapter 20: The Business of Bestsellers

23Chapter 21: Presidents as People — The Common Thread Across Four Books

24Chapter 22: A Reader’s Guide to Key Figures

25Chapter 23: What the Critics Say

26Chapter 24: The Great Society — What Johnson Built

27Chapter 25: The Vietnam War and a Presidency Under Strain

28Chapter 26: Lincoln’s Cabinet at War

29Chapter 27: The Roosevelts and the Second World War

30Chapter 28: Richard Neustadt and the Harvard School of Presidential Studies

31Chapter 29: The White House Fellows Program — An American Institution

32Chapter 30: Baseball as American Memory

33Chapter 31: Colby College and the Liberal Arts Tradition

34Chapter 32: Writing About the Living — The Ethics of Contemporary Biography

35Chapter 33: The Kennedy School and the Institute of Politics

36Chapter 34: Theodore Roosevelt Before the Presidency

37Chapter 35: William Howard Taft’s Reluctant Ambition

38Chapter 36: Franklin Roosevelt Before the White House

39Chapter 37: Lyndon Johnson’s Rise to Power

40Chapter 38: The 1964 Election and the Great Society Mandate

41Chapter 39: Grief and Biography — Writing About Death

42Chapter 40: The Historian as Public Intellectual

43Chapter 41: Presidential Libraries and the Preservation of Memory

44Chapter 42: The Ninth Decade

45Chapter 43: The Papers of a Marriage — Inside the Briscoe Archive

46Chapter 44: Teaching Leadership — A Curriculum in Four Presidents

47Chapter 45: The Reader’s Verdict — Sales, Syllabi, and Staying Power

48Chapter 46: What Comes Next for Presidential History

49Chapter 47: The Vantage Point — Inside Johnson’s Own Memoir

50Chapter 48: Concord, Massachusetts and the Weight of History

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