Word: goodwin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military historian. William F. Buckley Jr. was so taken with his subject--Pope John Paul II--that he awakened senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo early on a Sunday morning to chat about how best to end his piece. The pairings--which also include Elie Wiesel on Hitler, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eleanor Roosevelt and Salman Rushdie on Gandhi--led to a set of portraits that are at once authoritative and impressionistic, pieces that we think add invaluable personal insight to the historical record...
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer-prizewinning author, historian and political analyst
Moynahan said the decision to shift to The Crimson was supported by the IOP's Senior Advisory Committee, which includes John F. Kennedy Jr., Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) and renowned historian and Harvard Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin...
Essentially, her book is a historical account of the '50s, with an honest recognition of the author's perspective. The '50s, were innocent, but perhaps only because people like Goodwin--who have now come of age as the storytellers of the '50s--were innocent at the time...
...Goodwin says she was surprised at the difference between her usual historical research and the kind of personal research she did for this memoir. "I didn't suspect the emotional impact of the book...Since my parents died while I was so young, I really had no home in Rockville Centre; I did not have a place to go until the book...