Doris Kearns Goodwin, noted historian, author and political commentator will discuss the art of biography at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 12, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n
Goodwin is the author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II<\/em> (1993), which was awarded the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in history, the Harold Washington Literary Award and the Washington Monthly Book Award. She appeared prominently as a commentator in the Ken Burns PBS documentary on baseball.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her other books include the award-winning The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys<\/em> (1987), made into a six-hour television mini-series, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream<\/em> (1976), called “the most penetrating political biography” The New York Times reviewer had ever read.<\/p>\n Goodwin received a bachelor’s degree from Colby College and a doctoral degree in government from Harvard University where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.<\/p>\n Goodwin taught for 10 years as a professor of government at Harvard University. An assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House, she later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs.<\/p>\n The author of articles on politics and baseball for numerous national publications, she makes the claim that she was the first woman journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.<\/p>\n Goodwin is a regular commentator on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer<\/em> and appears regularly on Nightline<\/em> as well as various morning news shows.<\/p>\n Goodwin will deliver the Bates lecture as a memorial to Jean Byers Sampson, a noted Lewiston citizen active in the fields of education, civil liberties and civil rights, who passed away several months ago. Sampson is the late wife of Richard W. Sampson, a member of the Bates faculty from 1952 until his retirement as professor of mathematics in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doris Kearns Goodwin, noted historian, author and political commentator will discuss the art of biography at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 12, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-humanities-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92134,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32953\/revisions\/92134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}