Best Selling Books by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine) An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved. The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested. Their expedition gave Dick’s last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America.

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year 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 fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes a definitive middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson and how they became leaders. Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lyndon B. Johnson. They grew up and lived in very different worlds—Lincoln was poor and uneducated, his frontier cabin home deep in the harsh wilderness; Theodore Roosevelt hailed from an elegant home in the heart of New York City and traveled the world with his family; Franklin Roosevelt loved the outdoors surrounding his family’s rural estate where he was the center of attention; and Lyndon Johnson’s modest childhood home had no electricity or running water but provided a window into Texas politics. So how did each of them do it—rise to become President of the United States? What did these four kids have individually—and have in common—that made them the ones to lead the country through some of its most turbulent times?

With a new foreword: The New York Times–bestselling biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals. Featuring a 2018 foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning political historian that celebrates a reappraisal of Lyndon Johnson’s legacy five decades after his presidency, from the vantage point of our current, profoundly altered political culture and climate, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s extraordinary and insightful biography draws from meticulous research in addition to the author’s time spent working at the White House from 1967 to 1969. After Johnson’s term ended, Goodwin remained his confidante and assisted in the preparation of his memoir. In Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, she traces the 36th president’s life from childhood to his early days in politics, and from his leadership of the Senate to his presidency, analyzing his dramatic years in the White House, including both his historic domestic triumphs and his failures in Vietnam. Drawing on personal anecdotes and candid conversation with Johnson, Goodwin paints a rich and complicated portrait of one of our nation’s most compelling politicians in “the most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read” (The New York Times).

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln''s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation''s history.

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. 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, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.

Publisher Fact Sheet The sweeping history of two immigrant families & the marriage that brought them together.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft—a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country’s history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men. The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.

''A marvellous banquet with four leaders whose lives provide lessons for all. Pull up a chair'' Warren Buffett ''It is a safe bet that Leadership will soon sit on the nightstand of every chief executive officer in the land and will be avidly read by the legion of ambitious young people who want their jobs'' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times In this culmination of five decades of work, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, growth and exercise of leadership through the lives of four US presidents Are leaders born or made? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership, acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin looks at four presidents - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking at their entry into public life and how they confronted the dilemmas of their times, we can follow their development into leaders of their time. These stories of leadership in fractured times take on a singular urgency in today''s polarized world and provide a much-needed roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. ''Colourful, fun and illuminating . . . a master storyteller'' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times

¿Los líderes nacen o se hacen? ¿De dónde viene la ambición? ¿Cómo afecta la adversidad al crecimiento del liderazgo? ¿El líder hace a los tiempos o los tiempos hacen al líder? En Liderazgo: en tiempos turbulentos, Goodwin recurre a los cuatro presidentes que ha estudiado más de cerca –Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt y Lyndon B. Johnson (en derechos civiles)–, para mostrar cómo reconocieron las cualidades de liderazgo dentro de sí mismos y fueron reconocidos como líderes por parte de otros. Al recordar sus primeros pasos en la vida pública, los encontramos en un momento en que sus caminos estaban llenos de confusión, temor y esperanza a la vez. Liderazgo: en tiempos turbulentos, cuenta la historia de cómo todos ellos chocaron con drásticos cambios que interrumpieron sus vidas y amenazaron con destruir sus ambiciones para siempre. Sin embargo, todos emergieron preparados para enfrentar las situaciones y dilemas de sus tiempos. Ningún patrón común describe la trayectoria del liderazgo. Aunque se distinguieron por sus orígenes, habilidades y temperamento, estos hombres compartían una ambición feroz y una resiliencia profunda que les permitía superar dificultades inusuales. En su mejor momento, los cuatro fueron guiados por un sentido de propósito moral. En momentos de gran desafío, pudieron utilizar sus talentos para engrandecer las oportunidades y las vidas de los demás.

Os líderes já nascem prontos ou tornam-se líderes? De onde vem a ambição? Como a adversidade afeta o crescimento da liderança? O líder faz os tempos ou os tempos fazem o líder? Liderança em tempos de crise é o resultado de cinco décadas de estudo sobre a história presidencial norte-americana. A vencedora do Pulitzer Doris Kearns Goodwin escolheu quatro presidentes que analisou de forma mais atenta — Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt e Lyndon B. Johnson — para mostrar como eles reconheceram suas próprias qualidades de liderança e foram identificados como líderes pelos outros. Apesar das diferenças de contexto, habilidades e temperamentos, estes homens compartilhavam uma ambição e resiliência determinantes, que lhes permitiram superar as dificuldades mais incomuns. Esta obra de referência oferece um mapa acessível para líderes em qualquer área, seja em treinamento ou já estabelecidos no mercado.

From America’s “Historian-in-Chief” (New York magazine), The Presidential Biographies boxed set—featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s beloved and bestselling biographies No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, and The Bully Pulpit. After five decades of acclaimed studies of the presidency, Doris Kearns Goodwin stands as America’s premier presidential historian. Now, for the first time, her three most esteemed books are collected in one beautiful box set. No Ordinary Time: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, No Ordinary Time relates the story of how Franklin D. Roosevelt, surrounded by a small circle of intimates, led the nation to victory in World War II and with Eleanor’s essential help, changed the fabric of American society. Team of Rivals: The landmark biography of Abraham Lincoln, adapted by Steven Spielberg into the Academy Award-winning film Lincoln, and winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, illuminates Lincoln’s political genius as he brought disgruntled opponents together and marshaled their talents to the task of preserving the Union. The Bully Pulpit: The prize-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt—a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Told through the friendship of Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Goodwin captures an epic moment in history.

Le livre qui a inspiré Obama Le 18 mai 1860, alors que la question de l''esclavage déchire les États-Unis, quatre hommes attendent les résultats du vote d''investiture du tout jeune parti Républicain. Face à trois politiciens renommés d''envergure nationale, c''est contre toute attente le quatrième homme, Abraham Lincoln, un petit député de l''Illinois, qui l''emporte. Quelques mois plus tard, il devient le seizième président des États-Unis, confronté à la plus grande crise que le pays ait jamais traversée : la sécession de onze États du Sud et la guerre civile qui s''ensuivra. À la surprise de tous, Lincoln décide alors de rassembler ses rivaux pour former un gouvernement d''exception qui mènera l''Union à la victoire et délivrera l''Amérique du démon de l''esclavage. Doris Kearns Goodwin conte ici l''histoire de ce quasi-inconnu, autodidacte, " avocat des prairies " sillonnant les plaines de l''Illinois pour plaider dans les villages les plus reculés, et qui a réussi le tour de force de se hisser au pouvoir. Au-delà du génie politique, on découvre le destin d''un homme aux profondes qualités humaines, marqué par des tragédies personnelles qu''il a su dépasser pour transformer en réalité son rêve d''une Amérique unie.

" O livro que inspirou o filme homônimo de Steven Spielberg, vencedor do Oscar Ao fazer uma análise do estilo de liderança de Abraham Lincoln, da maneira como ele entendia o comportamento humano e das alianças que construiu em seu governo, a premiada historiadora Doris Kearns Goodwin escreveu uma detalhada biografia de um dos mais emblemáticos presidentes norte-americanos. Um livro fundamental para o entendimento da Guerra Civil Americana e seus principais personagens. Além de esmiuçar o caráter e a carreira de Abraham Lincoln, a autora relata também a história dos homens extraordinários que foram seus rivais na indicação para a candidatura à presidência pelo Partido Republicano em 1860: o senador de Nova York William H. Seward, o governador de Ohio Salmon P. Chase, e o sábio e ilustre estadista do Missouri Edward Bates. Seward seria nomeado secretário de Estado, Chase, secretário do Tesouro, e Bates, secretário de Justiça. Nos turbulentos anos 1850, cada um desses homens almejou a presidência dos Estados Unidos enquanto o conflito sobre a escravidão escalava até alcançar inevitavelmente a secessão e a guerra civil. A vitória de Lincoln, conforme mostra Goodwin, foi resultado de uma força de caráter forjada pela experiência que o colocava acima de seus outros concorrentes, mais privilegiados e bem-sucedidos. Venceu porque possuía a habilidade extraordinária de se colocar no lugar de outros homens, viver o que viviam, entender suas motivações e seus desejos. O crescimento do gênio político de Lincoln é revelado na impressionante abundância de documentos deixados por esses concorrentes transformados em colaboradores. Seus diários, declarações a terceiros e cartas trocadas com familiares, amigos e contemporâneos fornecem incontáveis informações e lembranças que tornam a abordagem de Doris coletiva, comparativa e, portanto, totalmente original. A autora mostra também como Lincoln lidou com as terríveis privações de sua infância, a morte dos filhos e com o horror em que a nação inteira foi mergulhada durante a Guerra Civil que acabou com a escravidão no país. Uma obra completa e original, que acompanha a vida e os relacionamentos de Lincoln, e como suas experiências moldaram a presidência mais emblemática dos Estados Unidos. “O mais rico e detalhado relato sobre a Guerra Civil americana.” Los Angeles Times “Um estudo elegante e preciso, que descreve de maneira brilhante como Lincoln forjou um time que preservou a nação e libertou os Estados Unidos da escravidão.” The New York Times Book Review "

Text of address at commencement of Concord-Carlisle High School, Class of 1980.