Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II.  She earned 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 the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times  was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced through her production company, Pastimes Productions. Goodwin is seen frequently in documentaries and on television news, cable networks and late-night talk shows. She even portrayed herself on an episode of the enduringly successful television show “The Simpsons.” In 2024, she published two books: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,  which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK and MLK—and events of this momentous decade, and her first book for young readers, The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her next production for television is an eight-part documentary miniseries with Kevin Costner on the American West that is scheduled to debut 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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