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Doris Kearns Goodwin has 2 upcoming events.  Fiction Book Group
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Doris Kearns Goodwin has 10 past events. (show)  Northshire History Reading Group Northshire History Reading Group will meet on Tuesday, December 18 in the conference room, 6 pm, to discuss Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history (MDGentleReader)
 Chris Matthews, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero “If history at its best is about telling stories that bring the past to life, then Chris Matthews is a master storyteller, for this fascinating portrait brings Jack Kennedy more vividly to life than any recent work.” Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of TEAM OF RIVALS“ Chris Matthews has written an insightful, engrossing, and candid account about what made John F. Kennedy tick. Every chapter brims with colorful anecdotes, political yarns, fast-faced drama, and solid research. Jack Kennedy is a riveting read by one of America’s master political analysts. I give it ten gold stars!” Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
Chris Matthews is the host of MSNBC’s Hardball and NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show. His bestselling books include Hardball, Kennedy & Nixon, Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, and American: Beyond our Grandest Notions.
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The 2011 Goodrich C. White Lecture , "The Lessons of History": Doris Kearns Goodwin on the American Presidents Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses the American Presidents. Free and open to the public. The 2011 Goodrich C. White Lecture Endowed by DVS, the Senior Society, and cosponsored by the President's Office, the "Lessons of History" Doris Kearns Goodwin on the American Presidents. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has been reporting on politics for more than two decades. Her first book, Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream (1976), became a New York Times best-seller and was followed by The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), which stayed on the New York Times Best-Seller List for five months. In 1995 she won the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II. Her monumental history of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, published in October 2005, reached the top of the New York Times Best-Seller List and is under development as a film by director Steven Spielberg and playwright Tony Kushner. She is currently at work on the progressive era: Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and the golden age of journalism. (jasbro)… (more)
Non-Fiction Book Club Doris Kearns Goodwin , Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. Wait Till Next Year: A memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin (author of Team of Rivals) is the focus of this month's discussion. The subject is obvious from the first line: "When I was six, my father gave me a bright-red scorebook that opened my heart to the game of baseball..." This is a wonderful story of a father and daughter's relationship and their love for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Join us, baseball fans and history buffs! (booksense)… (more)
Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin In conversation with Robert Harris Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.; Robert Harris, The Ghost. Tickets £10 When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House, his answer was instant: Team of Rivals:The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. No wonder President 44 admires President 16, a great orator, from humble origins, who saved civil war-torn America and ended slavery. Novelist Robert Harris - 'I have not enjoyed a history book so much for years' - is also a fan. He talks to the doyenne of US presidential historians and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History about U.S. politics, past and present. Robert Harris is the author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)
Lincoln Bi-Centennial Celebration Event: DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Keynote Lecture and Gala Dinner DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN discusses Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. As the finale of the CBA's Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration, the Association will host a Gala Dinner on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom featuring world-renowned author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The event will also feature the CBA Symphony Orchestra performing Copland's Lincoln (narrated by Harry Porterfield) and Cornelia Grumman, a former editorial page editor at The Chicago Tribune, will announce the award-winning student entries from the CBA''s Lincoln Essay Contest. 5:30 p.m. reception, followed by the program/dinner at 6:15 p.m. $175 per person. For reservations, contact Tamra Drees, CBA Events Coordinator, at 312-554-2057. (bookjones)… (more)
Adult Book Discussion: "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Non-Fiction Book Club Doris Kearns Goodwin , Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Osondu’s Non-Fiction Book Club will gather to discuss Doris Kearns Godwin’s "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Godwin’s groundbreaking work not only tells the story of the legendary president but is a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to head the country through its greatest crisis. (booksense)… (more)
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