Simon & Schuster, 25 (272pp) ISBN 978-9-5 This memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (No Ordinary Time) is a moving ode. She was the first woman journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room and she served as a consultant for Ken Burns' PBS documentary The History of Baseball. Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir Doris Kearns Goodwin. Regular "NewsHour" viewers may know that Ms. Her other television work includes regular appearances on "5 on 5," a weekly public affairs program on Boston's ABC affiliate station. She is a regular contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She also taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American Presidency. Goodwin worked as an assistant to President Johnson during his last year in the White House and later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs. Her works include The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), which was made into a six hour television mini-series on ABC in 1990, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976). She has also written about other presidents and their families. The book received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History. Growing up in the 1950s in the Long Island suburb of Rockville Centre, she. Goodwin is the author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1993). In her new book, Wait Till Next Year (Simon & Schuster), Doris Kearns Goodwin is a historian of her own life. Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote the essay on Franklin Roosevelt for the book Character Above All, published earlier this year by Simon & Schuster. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has penned numerous notable books, including the following: 1.
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