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Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership in Turbulent Times

Monday, September 24

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin unveils her new book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, a culmination of five decades of acclaimed study in presidential history- comparing the leadership styles of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
 


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  • Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, and New York Times #1 best-selling author. Her interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for Lyndon B. Johnson 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. She 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.
     
  • Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
     

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