Presidential historian and Pulitzer prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin is scheduled to speak March 19 at Berry College as part of the Gloria Shatto Lecture Series.
Goodwin’s book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” was adapted into the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” The film grossed $275 million at the box office and earned 12 Academy Award nominations.
Her latest book, “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,” won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in the Steven J. Cage Athletic and Recreation Center. It is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission. Tickets will be available beginning March 2 at the Berry College Office of Public Relations and Marketing, Room 306, Hermann Hall. Call 706-236-2226 for more information.
Goodwin served as an assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson during his term in the White House and later assisted him in writing his memoir. After her time with Johnson, she received a doctorate in government from Harvard University, where she also later taught for 10 years.
The Shatto Lecture series was created in honor of Georgia’s first female college president. Gloria Shatto, who served from 1980-1998, held that there is more to a college education than just what can be learned in classrooms. The Shatto Lecture Series honors her vision by bringing to Berry distinguished and world-renowned speakers.
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