Doris Kearns Goodwin Biography
Doris Kearns Goodwin (Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin) is an American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals.
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.
Goodwin’s book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Age
Doris Kearns Goodwin was born on January 4, 1943, in New York City, New York, United States. She is 76 years old as of 2019.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Family
Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in New York, New York the United States, and she grew up in Rockville Centre, New York the United States to Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns (father) and Helen Witt Kearns (mother). She has a sister, Jene Kearns. Her parents are of Irish immigrants.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Education
Doris Kearns Goodwin attended Colby College in Maine, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta and Phi Beta Kappa, she then graduated with magna cum laude in 1964 with a degree in Bachelor of Arts.
She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1964 to pursue doctoral studies. In 1968, she earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, with a thesis titled “Prayer and Reapportionment: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Congress and the Court.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Husband|Children
In 1975, Doris Kearns Goodwin married Richard N. Goodwin who was a writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Doris Kearns got two children with husband Richard N. Goodwin the children are Armed force officer (Joe Kearns Goodwin) and Michael Kearns Goodwin.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Biographer, historian, and political commentator
In 1967, Doris Kearns Goodwin went to Washington, D.C. as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
Johnson initially expressed interest in hiring the young intern as his Oval Office assistant, but after an article by Kearns appeared in
The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson’s removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam, she was instead assigned to the Department of Labor; Goodwin has written that she felt relieved to be able to remain in the internship program in any capacity at all.
“The president discovered that she had been actively involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement and had written an article entitled, ‘How to Dump Lyndon Johnson’.
I thought for sure he would kick me out of the program, but instead, he said, ‘Oh, bring her down here for a year and if I can’t win her over, no one can’.”
After Johnson decided not to run for reelection, he brought Kearns to the White House as a member of his staff, where she focused on domestic anti-poverty efforts.
After Johnson left office in 1969, Kearns taught government at Harvard for 10 years, including a course on the American presidency. 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.
She is also a sports journalist as well, Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns’s 1994 documentary Baseball.
Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II (1994).
In 1996, Goodwin received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Goodwin received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College in 1998. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Westfield State College in 2008.
Goodwin was on air talking to Tom Brokaw of NBC News during their 2000 Presidential Election Night Coverage when Brokaw made his announcement that NBC had in fact projected the state of Florida for George W. Bush making him president.
Goodwin won the 2005 Lincoln Prize (for the best book about the American Civil War) for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005), a book about Abraham Lincoln’s presidential cabinet.
Part of the book was adapted by Tony Kushner into the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln. She was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission advisory board.
The book also won the inaugural American History Book Prize given by the New-York Historical Society. She was a member of the board of directors for Northwest Airlines.
Goodwin is a frequent guest commentator on Meet the Press, appearing many times (during the tenures of hosts Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw, David Gregory, and Chuck Todd), as well as a regular guest on Charlie Rose, appearing a total of forty-eight times since 1994.
Stephen King met Goodwin while she was writing his novel of 11/22/63, due to her being an assistant to Johnson, and King used some of her ideas in the novel on what a worst-case scenario would be like if history had changed.
In 2014, she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for The Bully Pulpit. It was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (History, 2013) and a Christian Science Monitor 15 best nonfiction (2013). In 2016, she appeared as herself in the fifth episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Award
won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history for her No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994), and in 2005 she published Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which focused on Lincoln’s management of his presidential cabinet.
The book served as the primary source for Steven Spielberg’s biographical film Lincoln (2012). She later wrote The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013) and Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018).
Doris Kearns Goodwin Plagiarism controversy
In 2002, The Weekly Standard determined Doris Kearns Goodwin books as The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys used the attribution without numerous phrases and sentences from three other books: Times to Remember, by Rose Kennedy;
The Lost Prince, by Hank Searl; and Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times, by Lynne McTaggart. 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.”
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.” 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.
Slate also reported that there were multiple passages in Goodwin’s book on the Roosevelts (No Ordinary Time) that were apparently taken from Joseph Lash’s Eleanor and Franklin, Hugh Gregory Gallagher’s FDR’s Splendid Deception, and other books, although she “scrupulously” footnoted the material.
The Los Angeles Times also reported the problems with The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The allegations of plagiarism caused Goodwin to resign from the Pulitzer Prize Board and her position as a regular guest on the PBS NewsHour program.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Bibliography
- Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. 1977. ISBN 0060122846. OCLC 429528985.
- The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga. 1987. ISBN 9780312909338. OCLC 731388852.
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. 1994. ISBN 978-0-671-64240-2.
- Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. 1997. ISBN 0684824892. OCLC 37567424.
- Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage from 1896 to 2000. 2000. ISBN 0-9655091-7-6.
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005. ISBN 0-684-82490-6.
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. 2013. ISBN 978-1416547860.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns (2018). Leadership in Turbulent Times. USA: Simon & Schuster. p. 496. ISBN 1476795924.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Books
In addition to her works of presidential scholarship, Goodwin wrote Wait till Next Year: A Memoir (1997), about growing up in the 1950s and her love for the Brooklyn Dodgers. She also served as a news analyst for NBC and as a consultant for Ken Burns’s documentary Baseball(1994).
- Team of Rivals 2005
- Leadership: In Turbulent Times 2018
- No Ordinary Time 1994
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden 2013
- Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream 1976
- Wait Till Next Year 1997
- The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys 1987
- Leadership Doris 2018
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Presidential Biographies: No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, The Bully Pulpit 2018
- Every Four Years: Presidential Campaign Coverage Doris 2000
- Lincoln Doris 2013
- Leadership: Lessons from the Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson for Turbulent Times Doris 2018
- Leadership: Lessons from the Presidents for Turbulent Times Doris 2018
Doris Kearns Goodwin Net worth
Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, and political commentator who has an estimated net worth of $ 10 million dollars as of 2019.
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