
Overview
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Known For

The Obama Years: The Power of Words
Barack Obama launched into our national consciousness at the 2004...

Presidents In Crisis
Before they led America through national crises, Presidents Abraham Lincoln,...

Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964...
Biography
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.