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Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. The rest, as they say, is history. Doris Kearns Goodwin is joined by journalist Brian Williams to talk about her book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, a unique work of memoir, biography and history that illuminates the public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference—a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested.
Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. The rest, as they say, is history. Doris Kearns Goodwin is joined by journalist Brian Williams to talk about her book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, a unique work of memoir, biography and history that illuminates the public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference—a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested.
