Doris Kearns Goodwin.
doris kearns goodwin
team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln (2005)
Abraham Lincoln (born 1865) grew up in a log cabin in Kentucky, worked on Missisippi paddle steamers, AND taught himself law. He became leader of the newly-formed Repulican Party, becoming President in 1861.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) was brought up in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Colby College, then obtained her PhD from Harvard University. She was a White House Fellow during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, then taught government at Harvard Univesity for ten years. She helped Lyndon Johnson write his memoirs, and published her first book - Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream - which became a New York Times best seller. She subsequently wrote biographies of the Kennedys and of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,
