Doris Kearns Goodwin ist eine herausragende Historikerin, deren Werk sich mit den komplexen Dynamiken von Führung und den persönlichen Beziehungen befasst, die entscheidende historische Momente prägen. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch tiefen psychologischen Einblick in Schlüsselfiguren und eine sorgfältige Darstellung des historischen Kontexts aus. Goodwin verbindet meisterhaft erzählerische Kunstfertigkeit mit wissenschaftlicher Forschung, um vergangene Epochen zum Leben zu erwecken und den Lesern fesselnde und erhellende Berichte zu liefern. Ihre Fähigkeit, die menschliche Dimension hinter monumentalen Ereignissen aufzudecken, macht sie zu einer unentbehrlichen Erzählerin der amerikanischen Geschichte.
An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's magnum opus tackles the big leadership questions- are leaders born or made? Do the times make the leader or does the leader make the times? In LeadershipGoodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entry into public life, when their paths were filled with confusion, hope, and fear, we can share their struggles and follow their development into leaders. This seminal work provides a roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in time of surpassing fracture and fear take on a singular urgency.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the acclaimed multi-million copy bestseller Team of Rivals, filmed by Spielberg as Lincoln, turns to the birth of America's Progressive Era - that heady, optimistic time when the 20th Century is fresh. Reform is in the air, and it is time to take on the robber barons and corrupt politicians who have brought the country to its knees. The story is told through the close friendship between two Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) and his handpicked successor William Howard Taft (1909-1913). The decades-long intimacy strengthens both men as they reform America, breaking up monopolies, protecting the rights of labour, banning unsafe drugs and closing sweatshops. Also at the heart of the story are the original 'muckrakers' - a brilliant group of investigative journalists at the celebrated magazine McClure's. They publish popular exposes of fraudulent railroads and millionaire senators, aiding Roosevelt in his quest for change and fairness. As Roosevelt, Taft and the muckrakers confront corruption and expose exploitation, America is reborn.
In a portrayal of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the war years, this work illuminates the partnership that raised America from the Depression, forged military victory, and transformed the nation into a superpower.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's magnum opus tackles the big leadership questions- are leaders born or made? Do the times make the leader or does the leader make the times? In LeadershipGoodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entry into public life, when their paths were filled with confusion, hope, and fear, we can share their struggles and follow their development into leaders. This seminal work provides a roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in time of surpassing fracture and fear take on a singular urgency.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Winner of the Pulitzer for History, No Ordinary Time is a chronicle of one of the most vibrant & revolutionary periods in US history. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin weaves together a number of story lines—the Roosevelt’s marriage & partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, & FDR’s White House & its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin melds these into an intimate portrait of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt & of the time during which a new, modern America was born.
Chronicles the story of three generations of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, beginning in 1863 with the baptism of John Francis Fitzgerald and closing with the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in January 1961
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. 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.
Doris Kearns' classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author, then a young woman from Harvard, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967, she became fascinated by the man--his character, his enormous energy and drive, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff, she soon became his personal confidante, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other. Widely praised and enormously popular, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity.
Annie Leibovitz, gefeierte Photographin und Bestsellerautorin, legt ein Buch vor, das entfernt an die derzeit im Buchhandel so erfolgreichen Pilgerreisen nach Santiago de Compostela erinnern mag. In der Tat hat Annie Leibovitz mit ihrer Kamera und – das ist neu – auch mit normalem Notizblock und Schreibgerät Kultorte ihrer persönlichen spirituellen Obsessionen aufgesucht und ihre Erinnerungen in ein Buch gegossen, das nicht nur als Bildband, sondern auch als Lesebuch daherkommt. Ihre Wahl ist verständlicherweise angelsächsisch-amerikanisch zentriert. Aber der Horizont ihrer spirituellen Reise ist weit gefasst: von geographischen Kultorten, wie etwa den Niagarafällen, führt uns Annie Leibovitz zu Kultorten der Literatur, der Malerei, der Popkultur und der intellektuellen und politischen Geschichte. Von Charles Darwin über Sigmund Freud zu Elvis Presley und Abraham Lincoln reicht der Radius ihrer Pilgerreisen, an denen sie uns in Wort und Bild teilhaben lässt. Ein Buch zum Sehen, Lesen und Staunen.
