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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Historian
Born: Jan 4, 1943
Been History Me People Will You
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Trust Tell Ability Take Shaped Mass Around Historian Information Story
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set. Doris Kearns Goodwin
People Like Lot Campaigns Times Movie Movie Set Set
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Life Love Me History Struggle Grateful Be Grateful Looking Looking Back Past Back Spend About Shall Lifetime Allowing Learn Always Curious Meaning Figures Large
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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My books are written with a strong chronological spine. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?' Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I've been to the White House a number of times. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.' Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Age Pulpit Fragmented Our Diminished Somewhat Attention Bully Media
FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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