“Journalism still, in a
democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to
take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin
Biographer, historian, journalist and
political commentator, Kearns (born this day in 1943) has authored critically
acclaimed biographies of several U.S. presidents, including her
Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The
Home Front in World War II and The Bully Pulpit:
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.
“As a historian,” she noted, “what I
trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped
around it.”
She has become a true
master at blending history and eloquent writing.
A native of Brooklyn,
NY, she grew up loving the Brooklyn Dodgers and gravitated toward
sports writing. While
simultaneously teaching at Harvard, she wrote sports and was the first female
journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns’ documentary Baseball, just one of many consulting gigs
she has done for everything from PBS specials to Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln.
“I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history,” Kearns said, “allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past; allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning and for life.”
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