Doris Kearns Goodwin (born Doris Kearns on January 4, 1943) is an award-winning American author, historian, and political commentator. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. She is the author of biographies of U.S. Presidents, including Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, and her Pulitzer Prize winning book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II.
[edit] Early life and educationDoris Kearns was born on January 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Rockville Centre, New York. She attended Colby College in Maine where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa; graduating magna cum laude in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1964[1] to pursue her doctoral studies. She earned her Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. [edit] Career and awardsIn 1967, Goodwin went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) administration, working as his assistant. After Johnson left office, she assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. After LBJ's retirement in 1969, Goodwin taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American Presidency. In 1977, her first book, Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream, was published in which she drew on her conversations with the late president. The book became a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns' 1994 documentary Baseball. Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II. Goodwin received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College in 1998.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Goodwin won the 2005 Lincoln Prize (for best book about the American Civil War) for Team of Rivals, a book about Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Cabinet. She is currently a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission advisory board.[8][9][10][11] Since 1997 Goodwin has been a member of the Board of Directors for Northwest Airlines. [12] [edit] Allegations of plagiarismThe January 18, 2002 issue of The Weekly Standard made a case for Doris Kearns Goodwin as a plagiarist, arguing that her book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, used without attribution numerous phrases and sentences from three other books: Time to Remember, by Rose Kennedy; The Lost Prince, by Hank Searl; and Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times, by Lynne McTaggart. In a March 24, 2002, interview with the Associated Press, McTaggart said, "If somebody takes a third of somebody's book, which is what happened to me, they are lifting out the heart and guts of somebody else's individual expression." Once this was made public — and the almost identical phrases in Goodwin’s book were placed in numerous newspaper and magazine articles side by side with the originals in question — Goodwin admitted that she had previously reached a large "private settlement" with McTaggart over the issue. She wrote in Time Magazine:
An August 2002 Los Angeles Times story by Peter King reported that there were many passages in Goodwin’s book on the Roosevelts (No Ordinary Time) that were apparently lifted directly from Joseph Lash’s Eleanor and Franklin and Hugh Gregory Gallagher’s FDR’s Splendid Deception, as well as other books.[14] The allegations of plagiarism have damaged her reputation;[15], causing her to recall the book and suspension from various positions.[16] She has attempted to rehabilitate her image by promising to print a correctly attributed version and her work on a biography of Abraham Lincoln.[17] However, many in the academic, literary, and entertainment communities have continued to support her and her assertion of innocence. As in the case of Stephen Ambrose, the extensive use of research assistants has been identified as a possible source of this uncredited use of other writers' work.[citation needed] [edit] Personal lifeIn 1975, Kearns married Richard N. Goodwin, who had worked in the Johnson and Kennedy administration as an adviser and a speechwriter. They have three sons, Richard, Michael and Joseph. One of her sons is heading to Iraq for a second tour of duty. As of 2007, the Goodwins live in Concord, Massachusetts. Goodwin revealed in her contributions to Ken Burns' award-winning documentary film Baseball her life-long support of both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox. [edit] Books
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