When I was in high school, there was a book by James MacGregor Burns, a wonderful historian, called The Lion and the Fox, about FDR. And it was about his personality, his character, his early years in Hyde Park, his polio experience and… I remember that so vividly as the first real, live history book that I love so much. And I later met him, and have gotten to know him as a colleague, and he’s about 30 years older than I am, and I couldn’t wait to tell him, “You were the one who made it happen.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
Historian and biographer of American presidents
United States · b. 1943
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American historian and biographer of Lyndon Johnson, the Roosevelts and Abraham Lincoln. Won the Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time.
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