Background
Goodwin, Doris Helen Kearns was born on January 4, 1943 in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. Daughter of Michael Alouisius and Helen Witt (Miller) Kearns.
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In its drama and scope, Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys is one of the richest works of biography in the last decade. From the wintry day in 1863 when John Francis Fitzgerald was baptized, through the memorable moment ninety-eight years later when his grandson and namesake John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States, the author brings us every colorful inch of this unique American tapestry. Each character emerges unmistakenly, with the clarity and complexity of personal recollection: "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the mayor of Boston and founder of his dynasty; his independent and shrewdly political daughter, Rose, and her husband, the cunning, manipulative Joseph P. Kennedy; finally, the "Golden trio" of Kennedy children--Joe Jr., Kathleen, and Jack--whose promise was eclipsed by the greater power of fate. With unprecedented access to the Kennedy family and to decades of private papers, Doris Kearns Goodwin has crafted a singular work of American history: It is at once the story of an era, of the immigrant experience, and--most of all--of two families, whose ambitions propelled them to unrivaled power and whose passions nearly destroyed them.
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( Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, ...)
Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man--his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other. Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.
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Goodwin, Doris Helen Kearns was born on January 4, 1943 in Rockville Centre, New York, United States. Daughter of Michael Alouisius and Helen Witt (Miller) Kearns.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Colby College, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1968.
Intern, Department State, District of Columbia, 1963;
intern, House of Representatives, District of Columbia, 1965;
research associate, unites states department Health, Education, and Welfare, District of Columbia, 1966;
special assistant to Willard Wirtz, unites states department Labor, District of Columbia, 1967;
special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968;
assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1969-1971;
associate professor government, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1972;
historian, Harvard University, Cambridge. Special consultant to President Johnson, 1969-1973. Assistant director Institute Politics, since 1971.
Hostess "What's the Big Idea", WGBH-television, Boston, 1972. Political analyst news desk, WBZ-television, Boston, 1972. Member Women's Political Caucus, Massachusetts, 1972, Faculty Council Harvard University, 1971, Democratic Party Platform Committee,1972.
Trustee Wesleyan University, Colby College, Robert F. Kennedy Foundation.
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( In its drama and scope, Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Fitz...)
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Member American Political Science Association, Council Foreign Relations, Women Involved, Group for Applied Psychoanalysis, Signet Society, Phi Beta Kappa (outstanding young women of year award 1966), Phi Sigma Iota.
Married Richard Goodwin, 1975. Three sons.