Biographical Note:
Doris Kearns Goodwinis a celebrated historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, the runaway bestsellerTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which was the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s award-winning filmLincoln, and five other critically acclaimed and bestselling books. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Review Quotes:

“The most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read . . . No other President has had a biographer who had such access to his private thoughts.” —The New York Times

“Magnificent, brilliant, illuminating…A profound analysis of both the private and the public man.” —Miami Herald

“Kearns has made Lyndon Johnson so whole, so understandable that the impact of the book is difficult to describe. It might have been called ‘The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, ‘ for he comes to seem nothing so much as a figure out of Greek tragedy.” —Houston Chronicle

“A fine and shrewd book…Extraordinary…Poignant…The best [biography of LBJ] we have to date.” —Boston Globe

“Absorbing and sympathetic, warts and all.” —The Washington Post

“A grand and fascinating portrait of a most complicated, haunted, and here appealing man.” —The Village Voice