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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Jan 04, 1943 (82 years old) in Brooklyn, 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.

Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.

Known For

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The Simpsons
Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
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American Experience
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American Horror Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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CNN Special Report
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Baseball
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Spielberg
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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Self - Historian
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Abraham Lincoln
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Baseball: The Tenth Inning
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The Obama Years: The Power of Words
Self - Historian

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