Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Doris Kearns Goodwin

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DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN's interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for LBJ in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to her bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Goodwin earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals, the basis for Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, the New York Times bestselling chronicle of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, the writer Richard N. Goodwin. More at www.doriskearnsgoodwin.com @DorisKGoodwin

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    • Leadership

    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders, and others
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,155
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      5 out of 5 stars 1,050
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    In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon four presidents - Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and LBJ (in civil rights) - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • What makes a president great?

    • By tru britty on 09-25-18

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    • Team of Rivals

    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
    • Unabridged
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    On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....

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    • Beautiful, Heartbreaking, and Informative

    • By JJ on 09-10-12

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    • The Bully Pulpit

    • Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,804
    • Performance
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    Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good

    • By Cynthia on 01-11-14

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    • No Ordinary Time

    • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 39 hrs and 14 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,262
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,136
    • Story
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    No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Great at 1.5 speed

    • By Brett on 01-04-13

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    • Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

    • The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Jim Frangione
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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    • Overall
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    Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity....

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    • Unfortunately simple slant.

    • By Lynda Rands on 01-22-17

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    • Wait Till Next Year

    • A Memoir
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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    Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s....

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