Count 1191 books in. On Abraham Lincoln. More than john Kennedy Franklin roosevelt and Robert Kennedy combined. Guest i knew i wanted to live with him and i had to have a leap of faith that i could find something that would be my own way into it but the last one on Eleanor Franklin took six years longer than world war ii so i knew this would be a fundamental. He turned out to be the best companion i could imagine. Host how did you begin the process class guest at first i read. I hope its beginning to do a book about marriage the way ive done with eleanor and franklin but i realized they couldnt hold the public side of the story the way eleanor did. I realized he spent more time with the members of his than with mary. He was married to them more protected tense time theyd wait for news from the battlefield and go to the front of relax at night. These are the guys im interested in when it turned out theyd been as rivals beforehand that i finally realized that got my story. Host book came
She started out in brooklyn. And then she wound up here on long island what that rockville center, here we go, but shes a red sax fan, although that wasnt true in her younger days. You want to learn about her and her father that she wrote a wonderful book. Whats it called . Next year wait till next year about baseball. Its a terrific book and and many others she went to colby then she went to harvard got her various degrees up to her phd from harvard taught at harvard for a while then got into politics. So to speak staffer lbj and other i think youll say a few words about this. Lbj was really her focus for quite a while then she got into writing and has written all these wonderful books i have offered her. Blurb anytime she wants it my blurb for her will be if Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book a biography of bullwinkle. Id buy it and read it in one night. So let me introduce to you doris kearns cooper. Thank you. Im so glad to be with all of you today, and im really glad i can talk to
winning doris kearnes goodwin. she has appeared on c-span and book tv over 60 times. she s well-known for her work on abraham lincoln. her book was inspiration for steven spielberg s film in 2012. she earned her ph.d. in harvard. coming up, we ll reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. we ll show you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times and bully pulpit, but we ll start with her january 1st, 1995 appearance on the c-span series book notes. in this hour long interview, she discussed franklin and eleanor roosevelt in the home front during world war ii, her book no ordinary time won the pulitzer prize for history. here is historian doris kearnes goodwin. doris kearnes goodwin author of no ordinary time if you could ask franklin roosevelt or elino eleanor roosevelt any questions, what would it be? i would ask her why she was unable during the war where he asked her to be his wife again and stop tr
Time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the American People. Many reasons of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book. Sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a Political Science senior and Jennifer Bachner, a new frontier. Indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that its about way the beltway. I remember this all sitting around thinking after having lived in washington where some 25 years now, the life out there may really be different and this i
Time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the American People. Many reasons of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book. Sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a Political Science senior and Jennifer Bachner, a new frontier. Indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that its about way the beltway. I remember this all sitting around thinking after having lived in washington where some 25 years now, the life out there may really be different and this i