An unfinished love story, a story of the love of two people for one another and for their

country.

The new book is by an author well known to News Hour audiences, Doris Kearns Goodwin. She spoke recently to Jeffrey Brown for

our arts and culture series, Canvas.

In the past region, ideology.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian and commentator, extraordinary air.

For years bringing the past into the present on the news hour, where I first got to know her,

and other news programs.

Doris Kearns Goodwin.

A delightful and delighted presence late night.

The teachers Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Today we explore Lincoln's 18...

And that mark of true celebrity on the Simpsons.

Macaroni and pipe cleaners.

Most of all, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of best-selling biographies of

Linden Johnson, Teddy, and Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln.

President she's thought of as my guys, alive for her through research and writing.

My kids remember when I was in the room once they heard me talking to

Franklin and Eleanor and wanting them to get closer to each other. They wondered what is going

on in that room. I couldn't get any answers from those guys, but now this was my guy. This was your guy. This was my guy

42 years. Her latest subject, her real guy, Richard Dick Goodwin, who as a young man

was near the center of political triumphs and tragedies in the 1960s,

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