Presidential historian and Pulitzer prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin is this year’s featured speaker March 19 for the Berry College Gloria Shatto Lecture Series.
Dr. Goodwin’s book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” was adapted into the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” The film grossed $275 million at the box office and earned 12 Academy Award nominations.
“We are delighted that Dr. Goodwin will be speaking on campus.
Her work as a historian and writer has deepened readers’ understanding of U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt and, most recently, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt,” said Berry College Provost Kathy Richardson. “Her lecture, which will focus on her most recent book about those two presidents, ‘The Bully Pulpit,’ is particularly fitting for a campus with a ‘Roosevelt Cabin’ named in honor of the historic visit to campus in 1910 by President Roosevelt.”
The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in the Steven J. Cage Athletic and Recreation Center. It is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission. Tickets will be available beginning March 2 at the Berry College Office of Public Relations and Marketing, Room 306, Hermann Hall. Please call 706-236-2226 for more information.
Dr. Goodwin served as an assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson during his term in the White House and later assisted him in writing his memoir. After her time with President Johnson, she received a doctorate in government from Harvard University, where she also later taught for 10 years.
She is the author of several critically acclaimed, best-selling, and award winning biographies of U.S. presidents, which garnered awards such as the Lincoln Prize, the American History book Prize and the Charles Frankel Prize. Dr. Goodwin was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history for her novel, “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II,” which is about the Roosevelt presidency during World War II. Dr. Goodwin’s novel, “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,” was also adapted into an award-winning television miniseries.
Her most recent novel, “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,” has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.