#335: The Life Lessons and Success Habits of Four Presidents — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin (@DorisKGoodwin) is a biographer, historian, and political commentator who found her curiosity about leadership sparked more than half century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for LBJ in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream . She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II . She earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals , the basis for Steven Spielberg's award-winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit , the chronicle of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.Her newest book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times