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Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She has authored biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II ; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

✵ 4. January 1943  •  Other names دوريس كيرنز غودوين
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Famous Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”

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“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”

Doris Kearns Goodwin

“An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.”

Doris Kearns Goodwin book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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