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Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
Doris Kearns Goodwin (Part 1)
Season 2
Episode 203
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her path to documenting history—from childhood baseball scorekeeping to definitive works on the lives of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt[MOU1] , FDR, and LBJ—and what makes compelling historical storytelling.
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