Doris Kearns Goodwin

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865. Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The book focuses on Lincoln's mostly successful attempts to reconcile conflicting personalities and political factions on the path to abolition and victory in the American Civil War. Goodwin's sixth book, Team of Rivals was well received by critics and won the 2006 Lincoln Prize and the inaugural Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society. US President Barack Obama cited it as one of his favorite books and was said to have used it as a model for constructing his own cabinet, although he later wrote this was not the reason he chose Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. In 2012, a Steven Spielberg film based on the book was released to critical acclaim.

From the country’s leading presidential historian, The Bully Pulpit is a masterful and deeply insightful study of presidents – freshly told through the decades-long and complicated friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Like with Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin meticulously and with great perception and compassion captures an epic moment in history, when in 1912, Roosevelt and Taft engage in a brutal fight for the presidency – a fight that destroys both their political futures, while seriously weakening the progressive wing of the Republican Party, and dividing their wives, their children, and their closest friends.

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

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Chronicles the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and Kennedys, beginning in 1863 with the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in January 1961. An account of the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Fitzgerald and Kennedy families, drawing on interviews and private family papers to provide new insights.

Preface for instructors -- Part one: the first-person singular -- Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- On keeping a diary / William Safire -- Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Gumption / Russell Baker -- Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan -- Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- A & P [story] / John Updike -- Places in the heart : Edward Abbey, D.H. Lawrence, Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Ringgold Street / David Bradley -- The power of names : William Shakespeare, Haig A. Bosmajian, Booker T. Washington, Lucien Levy-Bruhl -- "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou -- Names / Mary McCarthy -- Seeing the elephant / Paul Gruchow -- Divided identities : Erik H. Erikson, Jan Clausen, Gloria Anzaldua -- Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda -- Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Part two: the social fabric -- What is an American? : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Enrique Lopez -- What is an American? / J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur -- America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed -- More than just a shrine : paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis island / Mary Gordon -- Bridging distances : Lewis Thomas, E.M. Forster, Cherrie Moraga, R.D. Laing -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- Distancing the homeless / Jonathan Kozol -- Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots : in the company of the mentally retarded / Sallie Tisdale -- Affirmations of love : Michael Denneny, Rose Weitz, Sigmund Freud -- The madness and myths of homophobia / George Weinberg -- Territory [story] / David Leavitt -- Don't tell me you don't know [story] / Dorothy Allison -- Crises of adolescence : Margaret Mead, Gail Sheehy, Laurence Steinberg -- From Teenagers in crisis / David Elkind -- Shopping [story] / Joyce Carol Oates -- A national obsession : Neil Postman, Pauline Kael, Maurine Doerken, Daniel J. Boorstin -- TV addition / Marie Winn -- Crack and the box / Pete Hamill -- Family stories : Clyde Edgerton, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Kittredge, Alex Haley -- Stories make a family / Elizabeth Stone -- Casa: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Granddaddy / Itabari Njeri -- Part three : everyday life -- Anxieties of appearance : Louis Harris, Nellie Wong, Arthur Schopenhauer -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- At war with my skin / John Updike -- Public space : Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Liu Binyan, Fran Lebowitz -- Territorial behavior / Desmond Morris -- Unfair game / Susan Jacoby -- Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples -- On holidays : Charles Dickens, Jeijun, Gwendolyn Brooks -- Happy New Year? / Russell Baker -- Ode to Thanksgiving / Michael Arlen -- On holidays and how to make them work / Nikki Giovanni -- Consumer culture : Thorstein Veblen, Sir Thomas More, Ellen Willis -- Kids in the mall : growing up controlled / William Severini Kowinski -- Shopping and other spiritual adventures in America today / Phyllis Rose -- The lesson [story] / Toni Cade Bambara -- The national pastime : Eve Babitz, Roger Angell, Elting E. Morison, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello -- Baseball : the ineffable national pastime / Gerald Early -- From father, with love / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- My baseball years / Philip Roth -- Part four : perspectives on gender -- The feminist movement today : Barbara Ehrenreich, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Rosario Morales, Audre Lorde -- Who says we haven't made a revolution? : a feminist takes stock / Vivian Gornick -- Feminisim: a transformational politic / bell hooks -- A letter to Matthew / Nancy Mairs -- Mothers : Marguerite Duras, Russell Baker, Marilyn French -- Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / Gloria Steinem -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- Mothers and sons / Barbara Lazear Ascher -- Fathers : Robert Frost, Mary-Lou Weisman, Alice Walker -- Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson -- Bridging [story] / Max Apple -- Fathering [story] / Bharati Mukherjee -- Gender roles and stereotypes : Germaine Greer, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, David M. Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers -- How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The woman of the future / Thomas Edison -- Girl [story] / Jamaica Kincaid -- The wimp factor / Bruce Curtis -- Resistance to stereotypes : Rita Mae Brown, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Paul Theroux -- Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf -- I want a wife / Judy Brady -- Mr. President / Bob Greene -- Conflicting loyalties : Olga Silverstein, Vivian Gornick, Terry Allen Kupers -- Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan -- Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen -- The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- Part five : enduring issues -- Declarations of independence : John Locke, Barbara C. Jordan, Mary Wollstonecraft -- The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- Declaration of independence of the democratioc republic of Viet-Nam / Ho Chi Minh -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The debate on abortion : Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Anna Quindlen, Ernest Hemingway, Florynce C. Kennedy -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer -- Putting women back into the abortion debate / Ellen Willis -- Freedom of expression : Michel de Montaigne, Carl L. Becker, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor -- The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann -- 2 live crew, decoded / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller -- Denigrating the species / H.L. Mencken, Taylor Caldwell, Thomas Hobbes -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Confession of faith / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The damned human race / Mark Twain -- Visions of the land : Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Noel Perrin, Brigid Brophy -- From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau -- The journey's end / Wendell Berry -- A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday -- Environmental action : Joy Williams, Aldo Leopold, J.E. Lovelock -- Natural man / Lewis Thomas -- Ecofeminism : our roots and flowering / Charlene Spretnak -- Women, home, and community : the struggle in an urban environment -- Part six : the power of language -- The languages of home : Barbara Mellix, Richard Rodriguez, An-Thu Quang Nguyen, Edmund Wilson -- The language of home / John Edgar Wideman -- From the poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall -- From A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The loudest voice [story] / Grace Paley -- Bilingualism : Tina Bakka, S.I. Hayakawa, Oscar Hijuelos -- Toward an American language / Richard Rodriguez -- Viva bilingualism / James Fallows -- Language and politics : Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- Words on words / Vaclav Havel -- Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan -- The power of metaphor : Aristotle, Jacob Bronowski, Cynthia Ozick, Judy Ruiz -- From Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- From AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Fighting words : Barbara Lawrence, Charles R. Lawrence, E. Digby Baltzell -- Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa -- A question of language / Gloria Naylor -- The WASP sting / Anne Roiphe -- Part seven : the pleasures of the mind -- Sight into insight : Helen Keller, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Hoggart -- Seeing / Annie Dillard -- The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- The loss of the creature / Walker Percy -- The unexpected universe : Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Carl Sandburg -- Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- Much ado about nothing / K.C. Cole -- Understanding horror : Stephen King, William James, Richard Wright -- [Tell-tale Heart]( [story] / Edgar Allan Poe -- In pursuit of pure horror / Harper's Magazine -- Origins : Robert Graves, Barbara C. Sproul, Isaac Bashevis Singer -- From Symposium / Plato -- Chapters one, two, and three / Genesis -- The time when there were no people on the earth plain / Bering Strait Eskimo creation myth -- The search for truth : Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Woody Allen -- Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon -- Stripping the mind of its beliefs / Rene Descartes -- Emptiness / Shunryu Suzuki -- Why we write : George Orwell, Toni Cade Bambara, Annie Dillard -- Why it write / Joan Didion / Nurturing resistance / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- I write for revenge against reality / Francine du Plessiz Gray -- B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca [story] / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- The act of reading : Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Edna Buchanan -- From Black boy / Richard Wright -- A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- Four kinds of reading / Donald Hall -- The art of reading / Lin Yutang -- The writers.

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities, and temperament, these men shared a fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled them to surmount uncommon adversity. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today’s polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency.