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Doris Kearns Goodwin: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

When: May 13, 2024 7:00 PM
Where: The Hub: Frankel Family Performing Arts Center
5950 N. Kendall Drive
Pinecrest, FL 33156
Organizer: Janice Baisman
Contact: Janice Baisman at [email protected] ((305) 667-6667)
Cost: Tickets: $39 – $65. All tickets include one book.
Summary: 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.
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2024-05-13 19:00:00 2024-05-13 19:00:00 America/New_York Doris Kearns Goodwin: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s 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. (http://jewishmiami.org/events/doris_kearns_goodwin_an_unfinished_love_story_a_personal_history_of_the_1960s) The Hub: Frankel Family Performing Arts Center Janice Baisman [email protected]

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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.

All tickets include one book.

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5950 N. Kendall Drive

Pinecrest, FL 33156

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  • 2024-05-13 19:00:00 2024-05-13 19:00:00 America/New_York Doris Kearns Goodwin: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s 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. (http://jewishmiami.org/events/doris_kearns_goodwin_an_unfinished_love_story_a_personal_history_of_the_1960s) The Hub: Frankel Family Performing Arts Center, Pinecrest, FL 33156 Janice Baisman [email protected]
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