Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak on campus Feb. 4 about the current presidential election.

Dubbed “America’s historian-in-chief” by New York magazine, Goodwin has written several highly regarded biographies of American presidents such as Lincoln and the Roosevelts. Her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln was the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning 2012 film Lincoln.

Goodwin received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history for her biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt titled No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.

A former professor of government at Harvard, Goodwin appears frequently on television as a political commentator. Students may recognize Goodwin from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, among other shows.

Goodwin’s newest book The Bully Pulpit, released in 2013, focuses on the relationship between Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. The book also won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2014. Steven Spielberg is currently working on adapting the book into another film.

In addition to her writing career, Goodwin assisted President Lyndon Johnson in the last year of his presidency. After helping Johnson prepare his memoirs she wrote her first book, a biography titled Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.

The event will be held in Stowe Hall at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4.

Photo courtesy of  LBJ Foundation

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