I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
