Book team of rivals was the inspiration for Stephen Spielbergs lincoln in 2012. Doctor goodwin earned her phd at harvard. So coming up, were going to re air her in death appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. Will also be showing you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times. In holy pulpit. So well start with a january 1st, 1995 the parents on cspan series footnotes. In this hourlong 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. Now here is historian doris goodwin. Author no ordinary time. If you could ask either Franklin Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. What would you be. I think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and i
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
Doris thank you for coming. How may people here have read team of rivals . Bully pulpit . Lyndon johnson . The kennedys and fitzgeralds . How many agree shes one of our foremost writers . [applause] for those who dont know her background very briefly grew up in new york, brooklyn, got her phd at harvard one Harvard White house fellow the Johnson Administration help johnson with his memoirs and then went back to teach at harvard and now has been riding extraordinarily well received and terrific biographies and histories in the wind and sir of a Pulitzer Prize as well. Youll be writing a new book coming out september 18 called leadership about on the leadership skills of the people you have written about lincoln, roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson we will talk about that today why did you decide to write about four different people why not . Each time i finish writing one of the books i have take all that persons books out of my study to make room for the next one i felt li
Online at cspan. Org. I dont think i need to do much to introduce doors to you. I thank you all know who she isnt. Rt she started out in brooklyn and then she wound up here on long island. Here we go. But she is a red sox fan. Although that was not true and her younger days you want to learn about her and her father, she wrote a wonderful book, what is it called . Wait until next year to about baseballs or terrific book. And many others. She went to kobe then she went to harvard. Got various degrees of the phd from harvard. Taught at harvard for a while. Then got into politics so to speak. Lbj i think youll say a few words about this. Lbj was her focus for quite a while. Then she got into writing and all its wonderful books i have offered her a blurb and my blurb for her wellbeing if Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book on bullwinkle i would buy it and read it in one night. [laughter] let me introduce to you Doris Kearns Goodwin. [applause] im really glad i could talk to you tonight. I es
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