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An unfinished love story : a personal history of the 1960s / Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E748.G685 G66 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goodwin, Richard N.
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
- United States--History--1961-1969.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Speechwriters--United States--Biography.
- Speechwriters.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 467 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
- Summary:
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Coming of age
- "A sort of dead end"
- Aboard the "Caroline"
- A Pandora's box of cigars
- The supreme generalist
- Kaleidoscope
- Thirteen LBJs
- "And we shall overcome"
- The never-ending resignation
- Friendship, loyalty, and duty
- Crosswinds of fate
- Endings and beginnings
- Our talisman
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-449) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781982108663
- 1982108665
- OCLC:
- 1428783293
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