Doris Kearns Goodwin Unfinished Love Story Hardback Book

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Americas historianinchief (New York magazine). An Unfinished Love Story A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of Americas most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for fortytwo years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedys New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnsons Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twentyfouryearold graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved. The Goodwins last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade... | Doris Kearns Goodwin Unfinished Love Story Hardback Book