Doris Kearns Goodwin

Birth : 1943-01-04, Brooklyn, New York, USA

History

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.

Movies

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Executive Producer
The true story of America's iconic 16th president is told by weaving together both scripted dramatizations of important moments in his life and commentary by authoritative historians and public figures.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Self (Commentary)
The true story of America's iconic 16th president is told by weaving together both scripted dramatizations of important moments in his life and commentary by authoritative historians and public figures.
Spielberg
Spielberg
Self
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
Presidents In Crisis
Presidents In Crisis
Before they led America through national crises, Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson were all transformed by personal trauma. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin reveals the all too human men who became legends.
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
herself
Three-year-old Monique Corzilius counts to 10, pulling petals from a daisy. A voice from mission control then counts down as the camera zooms into Monique's dark pupil. An atomic blast and ensuing mushroom cloud consumes the TV screen as President Lyndon Johnson's voice proclaims "We must either love each other, or we must die." This political ad, “Peace Little Girl,” aired only once or twice during the 1964 presidential campaign between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, but it ushered in a new era of the television attack ad. The 1964 campaign also reshaped the American political landscape in other significant ways. Johnson's "Great Society" and civil rights agendas pushed southern states toward the Republican Party and brought the northeast in line with the Democrats, creating America's contemporary geopolitical map of red and blue states.
Lincoln
Lincoln
Book
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.