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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a historian and author. Her books include Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
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