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To The Contrary
Woman Thought Leader: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Season 27
Episode 2731
Historian and political commentator, Doris Kearns Goodwin talks to To The Contrary about her new book Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin talks about the shared leadership traits that embodied previous presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. and Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as the support from the first ladies.
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