Doris Kearns Goodwin

Goodwin is the author of several books and has written for leading national publications. Her recent book on Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet inspired the critically acclaimed movie “Lincoln.” She appears regularly on network television programs and was an on-air consultant for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy family and Franklin Roosevelt as well as Ken Burns’ “The History of Baseball.” She was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room. Goodwin’s Convocation speech is titled “Team of Rivals: The Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln.”

Her most recent work, a monumental history of Abraham Lincoln titled “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” published in 2005, reached No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. “Team of Rivals” won the 2006 Lincoln Prize for an outstanding work about the president and/or the Civil War, the New York Historical Society Book Prize, the Richard Nelson Current award and the New York State Archives History Makers Award. A feature film based on “Team of Rivals,” directed by Steven Spielberg, premiered last November. “Lincoln” opened to rave reviews and received seven Golden Globe and 12 Oscar nominations.

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