Doris Kearns Goodwin Wins Lincoln Prize, Talks Of Leadership
Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has received the Lincoln Leadership Prize. The award from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation is for a lifetime of service in the spirit of the 16th president. She received it at a ceremony in Chicago Friday night.
Goodwin is the author of "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," which partly served as the basis of Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln."
In an interview, Goodwin tells The (Springfield) State Journal-Register she's working on a new book examining leadership and touching on presidents she's written about, including Lincoln.
Kearns says "you need a huge challenge to become a great president."
She says mobilizing sentiment from the bully pulpit, as Lincoln did, is harder today with so many other voices and rapid news cycles.
Links
- TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Letters By Lincoln’s Law Partner
- Abraham Lincoln Association Inducts First African-American and First Woman As Its President
- Bob Woodward on Lincoln, The 2016 Presidential Race, Illinois’s Budget Stalemate
- Tweeting Lincoln’s Assassination
- Fritz Klein: Bringing Abraham Lincoln To Life
- “Lincoln” Movie Props Coming To Springfield
- New Artifacts on Display at Lincoln Museum
- Reading Lincoln Speech Aloud Falls Short of Record
- Urbana Joins Nation in Honoring Abraham Lincoln