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
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
I hope I will be more empathetic and less quick to judge,
He feared that if the South should succeed in leaving the Union, it would prove to the world that ordinary people could not govern themselves.
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.
In a second prepared statement, two directors, a retired pilot and a former executive of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, condemned the AMFA attack as ''totally misguided.
His whole philosophy was not to waste precious energies on recriminations about the past
These are the kinds of moments when a president gives voice to the country. They're remembered forever, if it's done right.
Somebody said of Chase that he understood men as as a whole but not individual man.