The Mark Twain House & Museum presents Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont in Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Doris Kearns Goodwin on May 29
Governor Lamont and Esteemed Historian to Discuss Kearns Goodwin’s Acclaimed New Memoir, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
In Conversation with Governor Ned Lamont and Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mark Twain House & Museum • 351 Farmington Ave, Hartford, CT 06105
May 29, 2024
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In Conversation with Governor Ned Lamont and Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Mark Twain House & Museum (MTH&M) announced today that Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on her new memoir, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Simon & Schuster). This intimate and far-ranging conversation will be held in-person at The Mark Twain Museum Center (351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT) on Wednesday, May 29 at 7pm ET.
Tickets are $40 and include a copy of the bookthat can be signed by Doris Kearns Goodwin at a reception sponsored by Nuvance Health following the discussion. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 22 at 10am via the museum’s website.
Michael L. Campbell, interim executive director of The Mark Twain House & Museum, states, “We have long wanted to bring one of America’s preeminent Presidential historians to Mark Twain’s historic home in Hartford. We are incredibly grateful to Governor Lamont for making this event possible and for joining Doris Kearns Goodwin in conversation on our stage. We are looking forward to hosting an unforgettable evening.”
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
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.
Acclaimed filmmaker and fellow historian Ken Burns states, “Here, at last, is Doris Kearns Goodwin, come full circle, investing her prior works with the intimate details of her own original story. Here are the riveting stories, the insightful, emotional observation, the exquisite prose, all attached to her-story. And his. This is a beautiful love story.”
Kirkus Reviews calls An Unfinished Love Story “a heartfelt tribute to the author’s late husband and a captivating reflection on this pivotal era in American politics.”
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.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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 of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. More at www.doriskearnsgoodwin.com @DorisKGoodwin.
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