Doris Kearns Goodwin
Actor
- Born
- January 4, 1943 (age 83) · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator.
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's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.
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Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.
Known for
Acting6
- 2017Spielberg as Self
- 2017JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala as Self
- 2017The Obama Years: The Power of Words as Self - Historian
- 2017Presidents In Crisis
- 2014Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All as Self
- 2005Henry A. Wallace as Self
Behind the camera2
- 2012Lincoln Book
- TBAAn Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s Book, Producer