Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an award-winning American author and historian. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career and Awards 3 Claims of plagiarism 4 Personal life 5 Books 6 Quotes 7 Notes 8 External links

Early life and education

Kearns was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Rockville Centre, New York. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Rockville Centre is a Village located in She received her B. A. degree from Colby College, Maine in 1964. Colby College, founded in 1813, is an American private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville Maine. The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. She later earned a Ph. D. in government from Harvard University.

Career and Awards

Doris Kearns won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1964. Goodwin went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow in 1967 during the Johnson administration, working as his assistant. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The White House Fellows program was established by President of the United States Lyndon B After Johnson left office, she assisted the President in drafting his memoirs.

After LBJ's retirement in 1969, Goodwin taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American Presidency. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1977, her first book was published Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream, drawing on her conversations with the late president. This book became a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career.

Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. The Boston Red Sox are a Professional baseball team based in Boston Massachusetts, and are the reigning (2007 World Series Champions. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns' 1994 documentary Baseball. Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American director and producer of Documentary films known for his style of making use of archival Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Baseball A Film by Ken Burns is an Emmy Award -winning 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of Baseball.

Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Goodwin received an honorary L. H. D. from Bates College in 1998. Bates College is a private liberal arts college located in Lewiston Maine, in the United States. ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Goodwin won the 2005 Lincoln Prize (for best book about the American Civil War) for Team of Rivals, a book about Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Cabinet. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 &ndash April 15 1865 the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal The United States Cabinet (usually simplified as "the Cabinet" is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the Executive branch of the Federal government She is currently a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission advisory board. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission ( ALBC) is a federally appointed 15-member commission focused on planning and commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States ^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Since 1997 Goodwin has been a member of the Board of Directors for Northwest Airlines. Northwest Airlines Inc (often abbreviated NWA) is the principal subsidiary ^[12]

Claims of plagiarism

The January 18, 2002, issue of The Weekly Standard made a case for Doris Kearns Goodwin as a plagiarist, arguing that her book, "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys," used without attribution numerous phrases and sentences from three other books: "Time to Remember," by Rose Kennedy; "The Lost Prince," by Hank Searl; and "Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times," by Lynne McTaggart. The Weekly Standard is an American opinion Magazine published 48 times per year Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy ( July 22, 1890 &ndash January 22, 1995) was the wife of Joseph Kennedy and the mother of President Kathleen Cavendish Marchioness of Hartington (February 20 1920 – May 13 1948 born Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, was the second daughter of Joseph P Lynne McTaggart (born 1951 is a journalist and author most famous for her popular pseudoscience books The Field and The Intention Experiment.

In a March 24, 2002, interview with the Associated Press, McTaggart said, "If somebody takes a third of somebody's book, which is what happened to me, they are lifting out the heart and guts of somebody else's individual expression. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio "

Once this was made public – and the almost identical phrases in Goodwin’s book were placed in numerous newspaper and magazine articles side by side with the originals in question - Goodwin admitted that she had previously reached a large "private settlement" with McTaggart over the issue.

An August 2002 Los Angeles Times story by Peter King reported that there were many passages in Goodwin’s book on the Roosevelts ("No Ordinary Time") that were apparently lifted directly from Joseph Lash’s "Eleanor and Franklin" and Hugh Gregory Gallagher’s "FDR’s Splendid Deception," as well as other books. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed (See Timothy Noah, "Historians Rewrite History: The Campaign to Exonerate Doris Kearns Goodwin," Slate online, Nov. Timothy Noah is an American Journalist. He is a senior writer for Slate Magazine, where he writes the "Chatterbox" column and a contributing Slate is an English-language online current affairs and culture Magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael 13, 2003. ) The claims of plagiarism have damaged her reputation; however, many in the academic, literary, and entertainment communities have continued to support her and her assertion of innocence. As in the case of Stephen Ambrose, the extensive use of research assistants has been identified as a possible source of this uncredited use of other writers' work. Stephen Edward Ambrose ( January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American Historian and Biographer of U ^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

Personal life

In 1975, Kearns married Richard N. Goodwin, who had worked in the Johnson and Kennedy administration as an adviser and a speechwriter. Richard N Goodwin (born December 7, 1931 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American writer who may be best known as an advisor and Speechwriter They have three sons, Richard, Michael and Joseph. As of 2007, the Goodwins live in Concord, Massachusetts. Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

Goodwin revealed in her contributions to Ken Burns' award-winning documentary film Baseball her life-long support of both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox. Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American director and producer of Documentary films known for his style of making use of archival Baseball A Film by Ken Burns is an Emmy Award -winning 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of Baseball. The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles California, USA The Boston Red Sox are a Professional baseball team based in Boston Massachusetts, and are the reigning (2007 World Series Champions.

Books

• Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream (1977)
• The Fitzgeralds & The Kennedys (1987)
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II (1995)
• Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997)
• Every four years: Presidential campaign coverage (2000) ISBN 0-9655091-7-6
• Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005) ISBN 0-684-82490-6

Quotes

• "I got to know this crazy character [Lyndon B. Johnson] when I was only 23 years old. He's still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. "

• "I just want them to come alive again. That's all you really ask of history. "

• (After the ball to celebrate the selection of the White House fellows in 1967) ". . . the president discovered that I had been actively involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement and had written an article entitled "How to Dump Lyndon Johnson. " I thought for sure he would kick me out of the program, but instead he said, "Oh, bring her down here for a year and if I can't win her over, no one can. "^[18]

Notes

External links

• profile by Kevin C. Murphy
• Doris Kearns Goodwin at the Internet Movie Database

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