![]() ![]() She has since written best-selling studies of three other presidents and their inner circles: The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys No Ordinary Time (on the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt), which earned her the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History and Team of Rivals, a study of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet. ![]() ![]() Her account of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, established her national reputation as a historian. "He's still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life," she recalls. After his retirement, he sought her advice and assistance in the preparation of his presidential memoirs. At the end of the evening, he suggested that she be assigned to work directly with him at the White House. Although she had recently published an article criticizing President Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the Vietnam War, when she met the President at a White House dance, rather than argue with her, he asked her to dance. in Government from Harvard, she became a White House Fellow in 1967. A graduate of Colby College in Maine, with a Ph.D. Her invalid mother encouraged her love of books, while her father shared her love of baseball she traces her interest in history to her childhood experience recording the fortunes of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The acclaimed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in Rockville Center, Long Island. ![]()
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