Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will discuss her books, the American presidency and leadership lessons from the White House with renowned journalist Bill Moyers, Saturday, Nov. 14, at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
The evening is part of the annual Howard & Virginia Bennett Forum on the Presidency. Her talk begins at 6 p.m. Public tickets are $10 for general admission seats, available by calling Central Ticket Office at 816.235.6222. The event is expected to sell out, so patrons are encouraged to get their tickets early. The event is free for Truman Library Institute members. More information is available at their website.
Kearns Goodwin is author of six critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books – including Team of Rivals and her most recent, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. She has been called “America’s historian-in-chief” by New York magazine.
Moyers is an author, journalist and political commentator who served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. Moyers has been recognized as one of the unique voices of our times and is often called “America’s conscience.”
Other programs in the Bennett Forum series have included U.S. Senators Bob Kerrey, Chuck Hagel and Evan Bayh; Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and William Cohen; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; journalists Marvin Kalb, Arianna Huffington and Scott Simon; and historians Douglas Brinkley and Michael Beschloss.
