Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Sep 17, 2026
Andrew GrayHOST
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Jim LottsfeldtGUEST
Doris Kearns Goodwin? Yeah, about Lincoln's cabinet.
Andrew GrayHOST
The
Jim LottsfeldtGUEST
Prince by Mark Cavalli.
Matthew MitchellHOST
And I read this biography to try and learn something.
Matthew MitchellHOST
what these people did in their leadership, and can I learn something from them so then I can apply it to my leadership? And so I have read so many of these, but the one that I want to point to you, it's a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is an American treasure.
Matthew MitchellHOST
She's written so many great presidential biographies.
Matthew MitchellHOST
She's one of the foremost historians, American historians on our history as a country.
Talmage BostonHOST
I
Michael CullinaneGUEST
think Doris Kearns Goodwin, when she wrote Team of Rivals, that spoke to the Obama administration so much so that, you know...
Michael CullinaneGUEST
Barack Obama talked about, Doris's book.
Michael CullinaneGUEST
I would love for the president to think about leadership in this way.
Linda BurstynGUEST
Mm
Julian SchlossbergHOST
... where I got to meet, uh, Dick Goodwin and got to know, uh, Doris Kearns pretty well.
Julian SchlossbergHOST
Uh, and, uh, so Dick Goodwin, great speech writer, and this guy wrote things that were-
Linda BurstynGUEST
Amazing
David RubensteinGUEST
No press is there to see them fraternizing with somebody from the out-- opposite party.
David RubensteinGUEST
And then, then we have a great person, Doris Kearns Goodwin or somebody like that.
David RubensteinGUEST
I'll interview them.
David RubensteinGUEST
And members of Congress are fascinated by American history, as they should be.
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David RubensteinGUEST
The other book on Roy Cohn is not one somebody that the author liked.
David RubensteinGUEST
Um, you know, I, uh, and most of the times I-- you, you find something to admire.
David RubensteinGUEST
Doris Kearns Goodwin always says she falls in love with the people she-
Shaan PuriHOST
Yeah
Ryan HolidayHOST
children.
Ryan HolidayHOST
In her wonderful book, The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin quotes the chief usher of the White House who said that places that had not seen a human being for years were now made alive with the howls and laughter of these newcomers.
Ryan HolidayHOST
She also quotes an account from a journalist who credits the Roosevelt's as doing more to brighten and cheer the White House than a whole army of decorators.
Ryan HolidayHOST
and that the merry prattle of children echoing through the corridors and apartments gave it a home-like atmosphere which every caller was quick to notice and appreciate.
David RubensteinGUEST
And it turned out that members like it because it's a rare opportunity where they can sit with somebody from the opposite party.
David RubensteinGUEST
Nobody from the press will say, how come you're sitting with a Democrat or Republican? You can get an interesting interview with David McCullough or Doris Kearns Goodwin or somebody who's a really American expert.
David RubensteinGUEST
I'll do the interview and then members of Congress can ask questions.
David RubensteinGUEST
So I took the best of those interviews and put them in a book.
Steven GroothuisHOST
She's written several books about the NBA, and she's written a book about Gina Auriemma.
Steven GroothuisHOST
But she's essentially like Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Steven GroothuisHOST
Doris Kearns Goodwin is the Pulitzer Prize winning author on US history.
Steven GroothuisHOST
And pretty much regardless of the setting, Doris Kearns Goodwin is going to give you a definitive analysis, a definitive story about any topic in US history on a moment's notice.
Steven GroothuisHOST
almost as if she's prepared something.
Steven GroothuisHOST
And that's what you're getting with Jackie McMullen.
Stephanie RuhleGUEST
But Ryan, don't you think that the Gilded Age we're experiencing right now, when people don't have empathy, when they don't see, when they don't understand how people live...
Stephanie RuhleGUEST
Doris Kearns Goodwin, I remember interviewing her soon after Trump's first term, and I remember she had interviewed, or sh- sh- she had written about sort of every living president, and her concern for Donald Trump is one thing she didn't see him exhibit was empathy.
Stephanie RuhleGUEST
And she said everyone else, maybe not when they were campaigning, but after they won, they traveled the country, right? They went to small towns, they went to big cities, and they truly understood the plight of the American people.
Stephanie RuhleGUEST
And that's when they sort of said, "How am I going to serve this country?" And she said, "I don't see that in him." Look at how we're living right now, and I said this earlier.
Mark HertlingGUEST
What'd they think about you joining the Army after graduating from Harvard?" He said, "They were not too happy about it." Uh, I said, "Really? Why not?" And he says, "Well, both my parents are professors." His name was Joe Goodwin.
Mark HertlingGUEST
His mother is Doris Kearns Goodwin, and I didn't realize that.
Mark HertlingGUEST
I had read many of her books, and yet here is her son, who was planning on a different career, joined the military because of 9/11.
Mark HertlingGUEST
And he was a great lieutenant, and I chose him as my aide 'cause he was a good guy.
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