Recently, baseball fanatic Goodwin had the chance to broker a truce. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, at Washington's Nationals Park, gets Presidential mascots Taft and Roosevelt to shake hands.

That is the book historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, about the epic story of the love of her life, Richard Goodwin, peppered with his ...

Throughout the 1960s, Doris Kearns and Richard Goodwin, who eventually married but didn’t meet each other until 1972 — were separately and famously involved in presidential politics.

SAGAL: Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book, "The Bully Pulpit," about Teddy Roosevelt and his relationship with William Howard Taft, is out now. Doris Kearns Goodwin, thank you so much for joining us.

Presidential historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin says U.S. democracy has been closer to extinction at other times during its history — but not by much. Ahead of the 2021 Summit for ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses “An Unfinished Love Story,” her new book examining the 1960s through the eyes of her late husband, presidential speechwriter ...

Born in 1943, Doris Kearns earned her B.A. in 1964 from Colby and completed her Harvard doctorate by the time she was 25, simultaneously serving in the Johnson administration as a White House Fellow.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her path to documenting history—from childhood baseball scorekeeping to definitive works on the lives of Lincoln, Theodore ...

Pulitzer prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin first became fascinated with what it means to be a leader while teaching at Harvard in the 1960s. Since then, Kearns Goodwin has written about ...

In discussing her new book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin has said that empathy is one of, if the not the best, attribute for leaders. Goodwin, a noted presidential historian ...

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November 2, 2018 / 11:44 AM EDT / CBS News Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says empathy is a "central leadership quality," especially when you look at past American presidents.