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Doris Kearns Goodwin

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DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN's interest in leadership began more than half a 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 bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Goodwin earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals, the basis for Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, the New York Times bestselling chronicle...

Daniel de Visé

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Daniel de Visé is an author and journalist. His first book, I Forgot To Remember (with Su Meck) , began as a front-page article de Visé wrote for the Washington Post, part of a 23-year career spent at the Post, the Miami Herald and three other newspapers. Andy & Don, his second book, began as a journalistic exploration into the storied career of his late brother-in-law, Don Knotts. The Comeback, his third book, rekindles a childhood obsession with bicycle racing. De Visé has won more than two dozen national, regional and local journalism awards, including a team 2001 Pulitzer Prize for deadline reporting. His investigative...