Doris Goodwin
Doris Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwinis an American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She has authored biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism...
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth4 January 1943
CityBrooklyn, NY
That's the difficulty. We don't know what to do with the peace movement, what does it actually mean?
It really stands by itself. I certainly don't know of any other like it.
You can see how a story like that would make people relax.
I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.