Doris Kearns Goodwin books in the library at Your College



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 By John Deats
Director, Murray L. Fasken Learning Resource Center

Midland College readers (students, faculty, and staff): The following books by our upcoming distinguished lecturer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, are currently available for loan from the LRC's collection:

* No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II (E807 .G66 on the LRC shelves)
"....focuses upon the wartime White House, "a small, intimate hotel" frequented by Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Lorena Hickock, Missy LeHand, and other guests of the state and of the Roosevelts. Goodwin's eye for life's details catches Franklin's ongoing quarrel with the kitchen, the feel of the map room, Eleanor's unease at the cocktail hour, FDR's delight in this ritual, and many other scenes. Her portraits of ER and FDR are highly sympathetic, showing them heroically-but by no means flawlessly-leading an unwilling nation into the wartime effort that helped defeat the Axis and changed America unimaginably...". --Library Journal

** Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (E457.45 .G66 on the LRC shelves)
"...argues that Lincoln's success in winning the election and in building an exceptionally effective administration lay in his extraordinary ability to empathize with his rivals. Much more than a biography of Lincoln, historian Goodwin's book also closely examines the lives of Lincoln's chief opponents for the Republican nomination-Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and William H. Seward-all of whom appeared better qualified to be President than he...." --Library Journal

Wait Till Next Year : A Memoir (GV875 .B7 G66 on the LRC shelves)
"The remarkable '50s in New York baseball, together with the rituals of her church and the universal preoccupations of childhood, lend structure to this involving memoir by the Pulitzer Prize^-winning author of No Ordinary Time (1994). As in her studies of the Roosevelts, Lyndon Johnson, and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Goodwin superbly weaves together the universal and the particular: experiences she shared with millions of other war babies and boomers...". --Mary Carroll (Booklist)

*winner, Pulitzer Prize in History
**winner, The Lincoln Prize