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About the Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwinis an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. 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. She was also executive producer of “Abraham Lincoln,” a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin’s Leadership in Turbulent Times.
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
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Where’s the progress that we’re going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
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