The court historians? Those in attendance included Jon Meacham, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Michael Eric Dyson, Joanne Freeman, Eddie Glaude Jr, Annette Gordon Reed, and Walter Isaacson. Mike Allen at Axios reports that everyone wore masks. The topics discussed...
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Historical Thinker
Watch her and Chuck Todd today on Meet the Press....
Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Need for Empathy
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin appeared yesterday as part of the “roundtable” segment on NBC’s Meet the Press. Â When the topic turned to Brexit, host Chuck Todd turned to Kearns-Goodwin for some insight. Â Here is how she responded: Well, I...
Thomas Frank: “Team of Rivals” is “Uninspiring to the Point of Boredom.”
Writing in Harper’s, Frank tells us what he really thinks about Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. He writes: Despite having triggered these sequential booms in Lincolniana, Team of Rivals is uninspiring to the...