Most Popular Books by Doris Kearns Goodwin

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln''s mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it''s an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. A book to bury yourself in.

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.

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).

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

★空降紐約時報暢銷榜第一名，出版僅一個月，Goodreads好評超過一千六百則。 ★美國最受歡迎的歷史學家、《無敵》作者桃莉絲．古德溫最新作品。 ★一場捲入歷史之中的愛情故事，巧妙地將個人傳記、回憶錄和國家歷史交織在一起。 長達四十二年關於歷史與信念的辯論 關於各自投入的青春 關於忠誠與愛的選擇 美國最負盛名的歷史學家桃莉絲．基恩斯．古德溫，與其丈夫迪克．古德溫有著四十二年的長久婚姻，在迪克生命的尾聲，夫婦二人開啟了一場偉大冒險。 他們打開了迪克保存超過半世紀的三百多箱信件、日記、文件和紀念品。並且很快意識到，擺在他們面前的是一個個無與倫比的時間膠囊──關於一九六〇年代，照亮了那個十年的公共與私人時刻，當時每個人都被自己能夠做出改變的信念所驅動；就像今天一樣，那個時代以爭取種族和經濟正義的抗爭為標誌，是一個劃定界限、考驗忠誠的時代。 「歷史與命運有時會在同一個時間、同一個地點交會」，古德溫夫婦也是美國白宮重要歷史的見證人。迪克是甘迺迪總統團隊最年輕的演講撰稿者，也是詹森總統著名的「偉大社會」計畫的命名者與起草人。桃莉絲二十四歲獲選白宮學者，直屬於林登．詹森，後來協助他撰寫回憶錄。 多年來，迪克和桃莉絲就他們曾為其服務、且貼身觀察的領袖進行了品評，帶著幽默、自豪、憤怒、沮喪，持續辯論著他們心愛國家的進步和未完成的承諾。 「一個人不僅僅是作為個體而活，同時也有意識或無意識地承載所處時代的印記，與同時代的人們共鳴、共振。」桃莉絲發揮歷史學家本色，以先生迪克為研究材料，帶領讀者回到一九六〇年代的關鍵時刻，與當年的重要參與者建立聯繫。也重新審視當時身處時代洪流之中的核心人物——甘迺迪總統、第一夫人賈桂琳、馬丁．路德．金恩、羅伯特．甘迺迪、尤金．麥卡錫等，特別是對他們的生命有著深遠影響的詹森總統。這趟紀念之旅帶來了意想不到的發現，既是寬恕和對過往美國夢的重新定義，是屬於個人的愛情故事，也重燃了新世代人們與美國繼續這段未竟之戀的理想之光。 當歷史學家將研究目標從大歷史轉向個人的愛情故事，巧妙地將古德溫夫婦的愛情史與美國六〇年代的政治發展、以及未完的美國夢結合，《無盡之愛》既是一本傳記、也是一本回憶錄、更是一本美國近代政治史。 【專業推薦】 謝佩霓（藝評人／策展人）、閻紀宇（資深媒體人）專業推薦 「我認為這本書將引起許多不同讀者的共鳴。我們很難否認六〇年代與當今時代的相似之處——充滿政治動盪、世代衝突、學運和社運。無論你對六〇年代已瞭若指掌，還是剛開始涉足；無論你是想深入了解政治寫作的藝術，抑或是想了解一對鶼鰈情深夫婦的迷人故事，你都可以從本書中找到答案。」 ──比爾．蓋茲（Bill Gates），微軟創辦人 【各界讚譽】 「美國的首席歷史學家。」──《紐約雜誌》（New York magazine） 「歷史和傳記文類的巨擘。」──《華盛頓郵報》 「桃莉絲．基恩斯．古德溫以她對於細節的巧妙掌握，將政治人物重現風采。」──《紐約時報》（The New York Times） 「她是國家的瑰寶。」──安德森．庫珀（Anderson Cooper），美國知名廣播記者、新聞評論員 「即使放大到整個國家來看，桃莉絲．基恩斯．古德溫也是不可多得的人才──一位兼具學術與大眾魅力的歷史學家。」 ──CBS新聞 「我愛這本書。它充滿了美妙的故事，既關乎個人又述說了你不容易讀到的歷史。」 ──艾倫．艾達（Alan Alda），美國演員、編導、作家 「「《無盡之愛》提供了對熟悉事件的全覽視角，並描繪出充滿理想主義與政治暴力的十年。」 ──《洛杉磯時報》（Los Angeles Times） 「一本強而有力且影響重大的作品……傑作中的傑作。」 ──沃爾夫．布里澤（Wolf Blitzer），美國知名記者，前CNN首席主播 「《無盡之愛》與桃莉絲．基恩斯．古德溫以往的作品截然不同——我已經讀過她的所有書了。《無敵》原是我最喜歡的，但本作已然超越，因為它情感豐沛。」──尼爾．卡夫托（Neil Cavuto），福斯新聞台主播、政治評論家 「這本書訴說了一個愛情故事，關於作者已故的丈夫，還有我們偉大的國家。」 ──史蒂芬妮．魯爾（Stephanie Ruhle Hubbard），知名新聞主播、MSNBC政論節目《第十一個小時》主持人 「這是一本發人深省又動人的書，結合了傳記、歷史、回憶錄和婚姻趣事。」──《匹茲堡郵報》（Pittsburgh Post-Gazette） 「《無盡之愛》扣人心弦，邀請你來到一對結褵多年的夫妻旁，悄悄地聽著他們的有趣對話，這對夫妻因其經歷而對總統的政策和個性有著非比尋常的理解。」──《舊金山紀事報》（San Francisco Chronicle） 「正如《無盡之愛》是古德溫夫婦婚姻的見證，它也是一段美國及其民主政府的愛情故事。其夫迪克撰寫的許多演講、基恩斯的作品，以及他們兩人的反思回顧，再再證明文字確實具有力量。」──《哥倫布電訊報》（The Columbus Dispatch） 「一部貼近人心的政治歷史……既展現了對歷史研究的熱愛，也記錄了他們共同檢視的三百箱文件、草稿，以及一段與美國政治舞台密不可分的婚姻中，所累積的個人瑣事。《無盡之愛》也是關於美國之愛、美國的過去與未來、美國的奮鬥與希望。」──《波士頓環球報》（The Boston Globe） 「儘管著述等身，桃莉絲．基恩斯．古德溫的新書《無盡之愛》仍與之過往任一本書籍不同。作者和她的丈夫狄克都與甘迺迪家族和詹森總統非常親近，兩人在四十年的婚姻中保持著對總統的強烈而對立的忠誠……基恩斯帶給我們成百上千個有趣的插曲，講述她和丈夫與這些歷史人物相處的時光。但是，這本書的主軸是永恆的爭論：六〇年代具里程碑意義的立法成就，應該歸功於甘迺迪或詹森？」──查爾斯·凱澤（Charles Kaiser），《華盛頓郵報》（Washington Post） 「桃莉絲．基恩斯．古德溫又給了我們一份禮物。一如既往的引人入勝、文筆優美，數個故事同時交織……，這本書對這時代而言也是及時的。」──《波士頓先驅報》（Boston Herald） 「一本傑作，將使人們憶起六〇年代這個動盪時期的美好與不快，並提供讀者許多新見解。」──《波林格陵日報》（Bowling Green Daily News） 「對已故丈夫的由衷致敬，也是對美國政治的關鍵時代的迷人反思。」──《科克斯書評》（Kirkus Review）

Chronicles the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, beginning in 1863 with the baptism of John Francis Fitzgerald and closing with the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in January 1961

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