Overheard With Evan Smith

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Author & Historian

One of the best-known and most respected presidential historians, Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for her book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Her 2006 best-seller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln was adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2012 film Lincoln by Pulitzer-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Kearns Goodwin's newest book The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism will be published in November of 2013.