Where’s the progress that we’re going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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| Birth: | 4th January, 1943 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Biographer, Historian, Journalist |
About
Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in Brooklyn, New York. She is an American author, biographer, historian, and journalist. She has authored biographies of several U.S. presidents. Her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. In 2014, Kearns won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for The Bully Pulpit. In 1968, she earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. She won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II.
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