Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist and political commentator. Goodwin’s book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979.

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Summary Doris Kearns GoodwinDoris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist and political commentator. Goodwin’s book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979. She has appeared many times on Meet the Press, as well as regular guest appearances on Charlie Rose and American Horror Story.

In 2016, she appeared as herself in the fifth episode of American Horror story: Rookean Rooke, about a young girl who finds out her mother is a serial killer. She also appeared as a finalist in the Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor Book Prize for non-fiction for her book, The BULLY PILOT: A Worst-Case Scenario Novel. She is married to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and is the mother of two children. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1964 to pursue doctoral studies in government at Harvard University. In 1968, she earned a Ph. D. in government from Harvard University, with a thesis titled ‘Prayer and Reapportionment: an Analysis of the Relationship between the Congress and the Court’