Tips and Resources From Your Doris Kearns Goodwin Book Club Friends:
Doris Kearns Goodwin is considered one of America’s premier historians of U.S. presidents, having written several historical biographies including ones on Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. She is well known for her bird’s-eye view of the Oval Office, having worked in Washington, D.C., and assisted Lyndon Johnson with his memoirs.
Her eighth book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, once again blends memoir with presidential history but in a very personal way. Doris and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin, spent the last years of his life digging through more than 300 boxes of letters, diaries, and memorabilia and discovered they had an incredible personal time capsule of the 1960s. The result is an intimate account of politics and history that displays Goodwin’s exceptional talents at educational storytelling.
Goodwin brings a wonderful anecdotal style to her work and draws readers in with accounts of history that come alive on the page through her writing.