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100/100Critics
43/100Scholars
Author:
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
April 16, 2024
Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. The Goodwins' last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s.
What The Reviewers Say
The book is a year-by-year march through the ’60s as viewed by newcomers to the corridors of power. But it’s also a rather sweet portrait of a devoted couple growing old together.
The tension in the book is provided by the tensions of the era — LBJ versus RFK, white versus Black, young versus old, tradition versus experimentation, Richard Nixon versus Hubert Humphrey. But it also is marked by the gentle tension between a woman who saw romance in the struggles and torment of Lyndon Johnson and a man tied tightly to the Kennedys.
Manages to be different than anything that has come before.
Had he not been married to one of America’s great historians for 42 years, it is doubtful Dick Goodwin would warrant a book of his own.
