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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Richard Goodwin was a key aide to President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who helped coin the phrase “The Great Society.” Doris Kearns was a White House Fellow who later helped Johnson ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin with LBJ in the Oval Office on Nov. 15, 1968. (Yoichi Okamoto/Courtesy of LBJ Library) Emiko Tamagawa produced and edited this interview for broadcast.

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.

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 ...