Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Alex Warren On Getting to Know His Dad After His Death

Singer-songwriter Alex Warren was nine when his dad died of cancer. His mom, who struggled with alcohol addiction and was abusive, died when Alex was 21. Alex and Anderson talk about getting to know their fathers through the things they left behind, and Alex shares some of the mu ...  Show more

Wynonna Judd: ‘Broken and Blessed’ with Grief

Wynonna Judd is a country music superstar who got her first record contract at 18 singing with her mother Naomi. In this moving conversation, she talks with Anderson Cooper about her mother's suicide in 2022, grieving the father she never knew about until she was 30, and her estr ...  Show more

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Lessons from past presidents | Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio ...  Show more

Doris Kearns Goodwin: In the Rooms Where it Happened
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Her new book tracks the momentous events of the 1960s when her husband, Dick Goodwin, worked closely with both JFK and LBJ, and Doris worked with LBJ, as the two very different presidents shaped the future.


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Memorial Days | All About Women 2025
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After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine Brooks and her husband Tony Horwitz settled down for a quiet life. This came to an abrupt end on Memorial Day 2019 with the sudden death of Brooks' beloved husband. Without space to g ...  Show more