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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.

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The Bully Pulpit will be released on October 01, 2013 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, Audio Download, eBook
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No Ordinary Time will be released on October 01, 2013 in Hardcover, Compact Disk
May 23, 2013
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Oct 19, 2012
Team of Rivals will be released on October 16, 2012 in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
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Team of Rivals is now available in Trade Paperback, Compact Disk
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Team of Rivals will be released on October 16, 2012 in Compact Disk
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Team of Rivals is now available in Compact Disk
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Boulder Daily Camera, April 19, 2013
...Fiction Book Group because of Memorial Day Break. June 24 book selection will be Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. This group will meet in the Cafe in June. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Overview On May 18, 1860, in...
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, April 19, 2013
...Professor Michael Burlingame , one of America’s top Abraham Lincoln scholars, gave a Chappell Great Lives lecture Thursday night at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. In a first for the 10-year-old lecture series,...
Newsday, April 17, 2013
...books either written by Long Islanders or set here. Past events have featured works and personal appearances by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who grew up in Rockville Centre, and Colson Whitehead (whose "Sag Harbor" was set on the South Fork). A committee of...
Black Enterprise, April 15, 2013
...Doris Kearns Goodwin has followed baseball since she was six years old A- A A+ When Doris Kearns Goodwin was six years old living in Long Island during the early 1950s...
Tulsa World, April 15, 2013
...have worried that free library downloads could lead to lost sales. Such popular Simon & Schuster books as Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals” and Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” will be made available in digital editions. The pilot...
610 CKTB, April 15, 2013
...have worried that free library downloads could lead to lost sales. Such popular Simon & Schuster books as Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" and Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" will be made available in digital editions. The pilot program begins...
Marshfield News Herald, April 14, 2013
...all of their e-books to libraries. Some of the most popular e-books denied to U.S. libraries are Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals," Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Kennedy" and Kathryn Stockett's "The Help." Some publishing companies are working to...
Lexington Dispatch, January 19, 2013
...inspired me to read "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," the book by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin upon which the movie is based. I'm about 440 pages into the book so far, and one thing that strikes me is the role newspapers...
CNN, January 19, 2013
...Washington (CNN) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin notes each inauguration is moving in its own way, but only a few produce moments that are truly memorable. "It depends upon the person and the occasion to...
CNN, January 18, 2013
...nation's first president. Roosevelt's fourth and final inaugural address, in 1945, also was his shortest, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told CNN. "It was a five-minute speech, and he needed to fortify himself with whiskey in order to get through the...
TMC Net, January 18, 2013
...and a strength during the past four years. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $21) OK, so this book is not about Obama at all. But Goodwin's masterful look at Lincoln and how he stroked,...
Chicago Tribune, January 18, 2013
...and a strength during the past four years. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $21) OK, so this book is not about Obama at all. But Goodwin's masterful look at Lincoln and how he stroked,...
Individual.com, January 18, 2013
...and a strength during the past four years. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, $21) OK, so this book is not about Obama at all. But Goodwin's masterful look at Lincoln and how he stroked,...
KRCR-TV, January 18, 2013
...Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin notes each inauguration is moving in its own way, but only a few produce moments that are truly memorable. "It depends upon the person and the occasion to...