Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a renowned historian and author known for her insights into American political history. This interview reveals her ability to connect past and present, encouraging a deeper understanding of leadership and civic responsibility in turbulent times.
“Listening to baseball games, so I could record for him the history of that afternoon's Brooklyn Dodger game and think of it when you're only six and your father comes home every night from work on the train, and you feel like you're entertaining him for two hours as I went through every single play of every inning of t”
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“You gotta hope so, or you're gonna really feel bad about our country. But it would be more worrisome, there's no question. I mean, you think about what would have happened if Lincoln's near suicidal depression, which people knew about had been known that he really was taking knives and scissors and razors from his room”
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“And that's what happened in the 1890s too. They were writing about the fact that suddenly you had newspapers that are telling you horrible things that are happening all over the world, these mass market tabloid newspapers. So you're worrying about things that are happening that you never even thought about. Now that's ”
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