DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN’s work for President Johnson sparked her career as a presidential historian. Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, was followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. Goodwin won the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit about Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft’s friendship. Leadership: In Turbulent Times inspired a History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced through Pastimes Productions. In 2024, she released two books: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, and The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President, her first work for young readers. Goodwin has produced an eight-part documentary miniseries with Kevin Costner. Kevin Costner’s The West premiered in May 2025 on the History Channel.

WHY THEY’RE JOINING US

To be in the presence of Doris Kearns Goodwin, on the page or in person, is quite simply a gift. Her presidential biographies are an essential part of our American archive. Over the years, she has told us the story of ourselves and our leaders—Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson. Now she has given us An Unfinished Love Story, a moving memoir of her long marriage to Richard Goodwin, speechwriter and adviser to Robert F. Kennedy, and of the passion they shared for each other and for the country. Love stories don’t get any richer than this.

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