Doris Kearns Goodwin
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"Doris Kearns Goodwin" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S. Presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.

When I first began working on my Lincoln book, nearly a decade ago, he generously invited me to his home so I could peruse his fabulous Lincoln library. He sat with me for hours, suggesting which sources were the most important to begin my journey.

His book on Lincoln is not only a classic in the field ... it is a treasured resource.

These are the kinds of moments when a president gives voice to the country. They're remembered forever, if it's done right.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

He may be able to say something good in the weeks ahead, but at least as it appears right now, that moment that calls for the president has passed.