LEADERSHIP TURBULENT TIMES
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. Her latest book is the #1 New York Times bestseller, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.
Her critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times was published in 2018 and incorporates her five decades of scholarship studying Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Her Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln was awarded the Lincoln Prize and was in part
the basis for Steven Spielberg’s highly acclaimed film “Lincoln.”
Goodwin’s interest in presidential leadership was inspired by her experience as a 24-year-old White House Fellow, working directly for President Johnson in his last year in the White House, and later assisting him in the preparation of his memoirs. Her first book was the widely praised and enormously popular Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.
Goodwin graduated magna cum laude from Colby College. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Government from Harvard University, where she taught Government, including a course on the American Presidency.
Edward L. Ayers is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities at the University of Richmond, where he is President Emeritus . President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2013, hailing his "commitment to making our history as widely available and accessible as possible."
Over four decades of writing about history, experimenting with digital scholarship, collaborating in public history, and teaching and leading in higher education, Ayers has tried to find new ways to connect people with the American past. He is the author of 10 books on American history, including his most recent American Visions: The United States, 1800–1860. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.
Welcome and Introductions
Craig T. Kocher
Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life
University Chaplain and Jessie Ball duPont
Chair of the Chaplaincy
Moderated Discussion and Q&A
Doris Kearns Goodwin and Edward L. Ayers
Closing Remarks
Dean Kocher
A reception and book signing will follow in the Booth Lobby.
The annual WeinsteinRosenthal Forum is sponsored by the University of Richmond’s Office of the Chaplaincy and funded by the Weinstein and Rosenthal families.
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