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Doris Kearns Goodwin
@DorisKGoodwin
Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 NYT bestselling author of "An Unfinished Love Story" and "Team of Rivals," public speaker, EP of "Kevin Costner's The West" on History
Boston, MA
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Jan 4, 2023
    Thank you so much for all the wonderful birthday wishes! How lucky I am to have reached 80 and still feel so optimistic and fulfilled by a life rich with meaningful work, the love of family and friends, and the good health, energy and enthusiasm to enjoy it all!
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Aug 26, 2018
    What Teddy Roosevelt said in 1898! applies to @SenJohnMcCain's legacy: “A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Sep 22, 2024
    Finally saw this rare portrait of my guy Abe Lincoln. Newly restored & displayed @smithsoniannpg, at 9-ft-tall it truly captures his towering presence. I hope you can see it too & remember OTD 1862 when he issued a preliminary EP & recast the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Dec 31, 2022
    Sending my warmest wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year! It's been a joy to be connected with you this past year especially. I appreciate your thoughts and am grateful for your ongoing support. I hope to meet more of you in person in 2023.❤️
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Sep 21, 2023
    It's official! The book I’ve been working on the last 10 years—the first 5 with my husband before he died—will be published in April. Join us on this very personal journey through the 1960s—a time when we & many others were inspired to act by the belief we could make a difference
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    Sep 21, 2023
    Exciting @DorisKGoodwin alert 🚨 "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" is coming April 2024! Read more about it via @AP: bit.ly/APStoryAnUnfin… Preorder your copy: doriskearnsgoodwin.com
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Dec 24, 2019
    So grateful to everyone who helped me make the big move this year to Boston from Concord, our home for 40+ years until my husband died. This year I have so appreciated all the kindness sent my way. Especially thankful for my family, friends and work that have carried me through.
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Oct 1, 2024
    Happy 100th birthday to Jimmy Carter, a man of character. A decent, kind, compassionate president who sought peace & justice. In his farewell address he pledged that once more he would return to the title superior to President—that of CITIZEN & what a stellar citizen he has been!
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Nov 2, 2018
    As poet Robert Frost wrote: “My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, as my two eyes make one in sight.” Loving both sports & history as I have my whole life, how awesome to see @NBA great @laker @KingJames carrying my new book "Leadership In Turbulent Times."
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Mar 20, 2024
    I'm excited to share that my book is finally finished, printed, and it felt great to give it a hug! As the writing adventure ends, another will soon begin! Next month I will start a nationwide 25-event tour, so I hope I’ll see you along the way. Info at doriskearnsgoodwin.com
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Apr 15, 2020
    OTD 1865, Abraham Lincoln died. I'd like to think 10 yrs writing Team of Rivals, "living with" his humanity, empathy, resilience, humility & humor have made me a better person. Leo Tolstoy said Lincoln set the bar for leadership: his supremacy was the greatness of his character.
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Sep 19, 2020
    You gain strength, courage & confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do, Eleanor Roosevelt said. Ruth Bader Ginsburg did that & so much more. Bold, brave, trailblazing, empathetic—a hero for all.
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Feb 5, 2025
    History matters: the Civil Service system, merit-based & nonpartisan, was instituted in the 1880s to replace the spoils system set up by President Jackson, which saw party loyalists, friends & family get government jobs on the basis of WHO they knew, rather than WHAT they knew.
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    Feb 4, 2025
    “I can’t even imagine what the morale is in the government services right now with all this talk of what is going on and we need them, they’re us”: Presidential Historian @DorisKGoodwin joins Anderson to reflect on the first two weeks of the Trump presidency.
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Jan 6, 2019
    Remembering Theodore Roosevelt OTD 100 years ago: "Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight," said a politician then. Now it is up to us to fight for his conservation legacy & our beloved national parks. bit.ly/2AENEad
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Aug 24, 2018
    Confident and humble, persistent and patient, Abraham Lincoln had the ability to mediate among different factions of his party, and was able, through his gift for language, to translate the meaning of the struggle into words of matchless force, clarity and beauty....