Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Born | Doris Helen Kearns January 4, 1943 New York City, U.S. |
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Years active | 1977–present |
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Children | 3 |
Awards | National Humanities Medal (1996) |
Website | doriskearnsgoodwin |
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Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943)
Early life and education
Doris Helen Kearns was born in
Career and awards
In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a
After Johnson left office in 1969, Kearns taught government at Harvard for 10 years, including a course on the American presidency.[19] During this period, she also assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president, was published in 1977, becoming a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career.
A sports journalist as well, Goodwin was the first woman to enter the
Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II (1994).[22]
In 1996, Goodwin received the Golden Plate Award of the
Goodwin received an honorary
Goodwin was on air talking to
Goodwin won the 2005
In 2006, Goodwin received The Lincoln Forum's
Goodwin was a member of the board of directors of Northwest Airlines.
Goodwin is a frequent guest commentator on Meet the Press, having appeared many times during the tenures of hosts Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw, David Gregory, and Chuck Todd. She was also a regular guest on Charlie Rose, appearing a total of forty-eight times beginning in 1994.
Stephen King met with Goodwin while he was writing his novel 11/22/63, since she had been an assistant to Johnson. King used some of her ideas in the novel on what a worst-case scenario would be like if history had changed.[36]
In 2014, Kearns won the
In 2016, she appeared as herself in the fifth episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke,[40] and made a cameo appearance playing herself as a teacher in the Simpsons episode "The Town".[41]
In April 2024, Simon & Schuster published Kearns' book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.[42]
Plagiarism controversies
In 2002, The Weekly Standard determined that Goodwin's book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys used without attribution numerous phrases and sentences from three other books: Times to Remember by Rose Kennedy; The Lost Prince by Hank Searls; and Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times by Lynne McTaggart.[43] McTaggart remarked, "If somebody takes a third of somebody's book, which is what happened to me, they are lifting out the heart and guts of somebody else's individual expression."[44] Goodwin had previously reached a "private settlement" with McTaggart over the issue. In an article she wrote for Time magazine, she said, "Though my footnotes repeatedly cited Ms. McTaggart's work, I failed to provide quotation marks for phrases that I had taken verbatim... The larger question for those of us who write history is to understand how citation mistakes can happen."[45] In its analysis of the controversy, Slate magazine criticized Goodwin for the aggrieved tone of her explanation, and suggested Goodwin's worst offense was allowing the plagiarism to remain in future editions of the book even after it was brought to her attention.[46]
The plagiarism controversy caused Goodwin to resign from the Pulitzer Prize Board[47] and to relinquish her position as a regular guest on the PBS NewsHour program.[48]
The Los Angeles Times also reported on a passage in No Ordinary Time which appeared to use highly similar language and phrasing to one in Joseph P. Lash's 1971 book Eleanor & Franklin; Goodwin includes a citation for Lash in the bibliography, though the article questions if this is sufficient for the use of similar "framing language" between the two texts. In response, Goodwin said that she had met "the highest standards of historical scholarship" for the passage in question.[49]
Personal life
Growing up on Long Island, Goodwin was a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. She remembered that her father would have her document the events of a baseball game from the radio, and "replay" the events for him when he returned home. Goodwin stopped following baseball after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, but later became a Boston Red Sox fan while attending Harvard, and is now a season ticket holder.[50]
In 1975, Kearns married
Bibliography
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1976). Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. OCLC 429528985.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1987). OCLC 731388852.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1994). OCLC 1104884628.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1997). Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. OCLC 37567424.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2000). Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage from 1896 to 2000. OCLC 44050920.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2005). OCLC 985963008.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2013). The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. OCLC 865101671.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2018). OCLC 1142801069.[56]
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2024). An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. Simon & Schuster (published April 16, 2024). ISBN 9781982108663.
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- ^ Goodwin, Doris Kearns (April 22, 1997). "109th Landon Lecture". Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University. Archived from the original on June 28, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2006.
- ^ Goodwin, Doris Kearns (June 14, 1998). "Commencement address at Dartmouth College". Dartmouth News. Archived from the original on February 6, 2006.
- ^ Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Summer 1998). "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Leader to Leader. Archived from the original on March 2, 2006.
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- ^ Lawless, Jill (March 23, 2002). "Author Says Doris Kearns Goodwin Took 'Heart and Guts' From Her Book". Associated Press.
- ^ Goodwin, Doris Kearns (January 27, 2002). "How I Caused That Story". Time. Archived from the original on February 9, 2002.
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External links
- Official website
- Doris Kearns Goodwin at TED
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- A film clip "The Open Mind -Another Dynasty: The Kennedys (1987)" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive
- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Charlie Rose
- Doris Kearns Goodwin at IMDb
- Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour TV Series, Episode #116 (1994)