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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine)
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.
Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir.
Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved.
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, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested.
Their expedition gave Dick’s last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America.
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Barry –
This reminds me of a divine gift I experienced some 70 years ago.
You are a unique gift of love that is intrinsic to all of existence for all of eternity. Just as every other soul is and no-one can replace you. Created from and is a part of an absolute 100% generic love that has always been. Your willingness to receive determines what you experience, because love loves to be loved. Love’s awareness is like experiencing infinity.
Then doing the right thing through love binds because of its magnetic power without capturing and supports because it is an infinite constant without limiting. A choice.
James D. Leach –
Inspiring, moving, educational, everything great a book can be.
mishmish –
As usual with Doris Kern Godwin’s histories this book is more than just a history of the Kennedys and President Johnson and the fight for civil rights. With the background of the sixties Ms Godwin also gives us a detailed picture of her husband and herself in those exciting times, working in the White House, writing famous speeches for the presidents (her husband), sharing President Johnson’s memories near the end of his life (herself) and the many devoted Americans who believed in the changing times and the end of racism. It is also the story of Godwin’s life with her husband and their shared interests and love of America. Written after the death of her husband, the book is a tribute to him and to his political fights.
Christine Hung –
very practising, effective and useful as well as have a very great analysis.
Caryn R. –
Reading this book is an inspiring experience in reliving the beginning of the civil rights movement. It also brought to light on how our country was divided and continues to be divided in bringing democratic ideals together. Doris Kearns Godwin is an excellent writer and historian. Richard Godwin is a force to be reckoned with in his writings and the ability to capture the essence of the moment.
John E. Pepper –
I recommend this book with great enthusiasm. It is one of the most heartfelt books I’ve ever read. It’s a tribute to DKG’s husband, Richard Goodwin, but it is also a “you are there” journey through so many of the movements of the mid-1960s which we hold up as examples of what we aspire to achieve at our best: the Great Society, voting rights, an attack on poverty. While I lament the failure to deliver on these visions after 60 years, they continue to shine a light on the nation we must seek to realize.
Ms. Goodwin has put together a remarkable blend of history, personal memoir, perspective and human feeling that will remain with me for a long time. I believe it will touch you.
Her perspectives and recollections of Bobby Kenned leap from the page.
I truly believe that among the men and women who have died prematurely during my adult lifetime, none has probably had a greater negative impact on history than the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. If he had lived and won the presidency, which I think was likely, this country would have been different in so many ways. We would have exited the Vietnam War sooner with less deaths. But most importantly, I think he uniquely among the politicians over the last 60 years had the heart and mind and voice and spirit to bring people together, across race and across class.
His contemporaneous remarks the night Martin Luther King died will forever remain with me, his quotation from Aeschylus—“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God.”
“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: To tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this world…”
“Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.”
I have admired Doris Kearns Goodwin’s writings about presidents and leadership for decades. Never, however, have I admired her soul as I do now. What a life she has lived; what a timeless tribute she has written to her husband. His role was principally that of an agitator and speechwriter. His fingerprints were all over President Johnson’s greatest speeches driving the domestic revolutions of the mid-1960s. He played a big role in Bobby Kennedy’s “Ripple of Hope” talk in South Africa.
DKG has rescued the forgotten or never known role of most speechwriters for her husband. This is a worthy tribute and it is, perhaps above all, a tribute to her.
I’m confident you will enjoy this, Greg.
Warmly,
John
cc FGP
PS – This is a fragment of William Wordsworth’s poem, Intimations of Immortality, which was a favorite of Doris’ husband, Dick. She had read it to him close to his death at the age of 86. When she finished reading it, he turned to her and from memory repeated it:
“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.”
I love this. It touches me at this stage of my life. For obvious reasons. Not just satisfaction, but glory in what remains behind. The memories, of course, but even more, the satisfaction and confidence that knowing I have four children and they have four spouses and we have ten grandchildren who I know, who I am absolutely certain will go on to do different but good things. No one could ask for anything more than that. And more…there are other leaders whom I know, much younger than I, like you, who through the grace of God will live on much longer than I will, who will continue to pursue the unfinished business of this country and provide the opportunity for everyone to achieve their full potential, without discrimination, with the benefits of health and education that everyone deserves.
Rusty B –
This is an exceptional book written by a gifted writer about her and her husband’s lives and experiences during the 1960’s. Both were at the very center of our government during the Kennedy and Johnson years and they offer an intimate and first hand look at what transpired during those extraordinary times. I found the book to be absolutely fascinating especially as one views it in the context of what our country is going through now politically.
carilynp –
Do you love history? Have a fascination with the 60s? The Kennedys? LBJ? DKG’s stories are remarkable, and this book is unlike any other because she’s combined her vast knowledge as an historian along with heaps of cool facts about her remarkable, brilliant husband Dick Goodwin’s illustrious career and pivotal role he played as a presidential speechwriter and political advisor as they unearthed hundreds of letters, journals, memos, (more than 300 boxes that had been in storage and they only started going through them before he died).
A trusted member of JFK’s campaign as a speechwriter and later assistant special counsel on Latin American affairs under the president, a close friend of Jackie and Bobby’s too, to LBJ he became indispensable, once again an instrumental speechwriter and special assistant to the president and an integral part of the civil rights movement. The speeches Goodwin wrote for both presidents moved a nation, to belief, action, the creation of programs, that Kennedy dreamt of, and Johnson implemented. And all that doesn’t even include everything he did that led to his professional career.
As the title says, it’s a love story rolled up in history, with some of the most interesting facts, intimate tales of relationships formed in his (and her) early days in D.C., what they witnessed up close and personal, the words he wrote, which had a profound impact on the American people from the evolution of the Peace Corps to the signing of the Voting Rights Act. To think, this was all tucked away in storage. Eloquently told with wit, charm, with the dazzle that only Ms. Kearns Goodwin can deliver.
Shaneoh –
A great novel about what happened in politics in the JFK/LBJ from those at the coal face
Richard the Lionhearted –
History and Love-story for one and all —- ages, persuasions, you name it!
Bobby D. –
The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has offered up both an individual memoir and testimonial to her late husband Richard (Dick) Goodwin. They were married for over 40 years. Dick was instrumental as an adviser and speechwriter for Presidents Kennedy and LBJ… and friends with Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. The couple over their life together amassed many boxes (over 300) of letters, speeches, and memorabilia mostly from their 1960 experiences and relationships. They both had special access to two Presidents and a third possible one was denied. In preparation for this book, they decided to go through all of this material using it as a springboard to tell the 1960s from their perspectives.
There is nothing new in the way of undiscovered history in the book, although it offers unique insight into the major moments of the 1960s. It made me regret that Richard Goodwin did not write his biography. Yet he has found a loving and understanding communicator in Doris’s good hands. This reads as a living contemporaneous document. It feels as if you are with Doris and Dick as they sift through boxes full of memories and truths, like your with old friends who wish to reconnect with their past. Dick Goodwin died May 20, 2018 age 86. Doris is now 81.