Doris Kearns Goodwin

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.Doris Kearns Goodwin

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.Doris Kearns Goodwin

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.Doris Kearns Goodwin

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.Doris Kearns Goodwin

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a famous American biographer, who was born on January 4, 1943. As a person born on this date, Doris Kearns Goodwin is listed in our database as the 35th most popular celebrity for the day (January 4) and the 93rd most popular for the year (1943).

People born on January 4 fall under the Zodiac sign of Capricorn, the Sea Goat. Doris Kearns Goodwin is the 966th most popular Capricorn.

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