An Unfinished Love Story: With Guest Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this rebroadcast episode, Michael Steele speaks with historian, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, Doris Kearns Goodwin. The pair discuss Doris' latest book, "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s," which explores the personal journey of Doris and her late husband, Richard "Dick" Goodwin, as they delve into the 300 boxes of documents from the 1960s that they had collected. Michael and Doris discuss the idealism and challenges of the 1960s, Doris and Dick's love story, the impact of Lyndon Johnson on American history, the current state of American democracy, and the importance of voting rights.

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0:00.0	Doris Curran's Good One has written an amazing number of books about history, about power,
0:11.0	the country. Her work for Lyndon Johnson, President Lyndon Johnson inspired her and her career as a presidential historian.
0:23.9	Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream.
0:27.9	She followed that up with the Pulitzer Prize winning
0:30.9	No Ordinary Time, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,
0:34.4	the Home Front in World War II.
0:37.3	And she earned the Lincoln Prize for
0:38.9	Team of Rivals, in my view, the best book of the many that she's written, and is in fact
0:48.0	served as a big part of Steven Spielberg's film, Lincoln.
0:55.6	Well, she's done it again.
1:00.1	The Pulitzer Prize-winning number one New York Times bestselling author and deemed as America's Historian in Chief by New York Magazine
1:05.4	has written a very personal story.
1:10.1	It's entitled An Unfinished Love Story, A Personal History of the
1:14.3	1960s, is a biography, a memoir, and history all rolled up in one, and she takes readers
1:21.8	along a very emotional journey. She and her husband, Richard Dick Goodwin, embarked upon in the last
1:30.6	years of his life. We get into his work, her work, and their love story coming up next on the
1:39.4	Michael Steel podcast right after this.
1:53.4	Hey, everybody, welcome to the Michael Still podcast.
1:57.8	So if you're a little bit of a romantic like myself,
2:03.8	where you from time to time kind of like, ooh, ah, and you sort of cry at sappy movies, and you get emotional when you hear things or you remember things.
2:11.3	I think you'll appreciate this conversation, because this is about a love story, as much as
2:16.2	it is about history and and the roles
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