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<\/a>These bits of information and more highlighted the campus visit of Doris Kearns Goodwin in October 2013. Missouri\nWestern students, employees, community members and more than 750 area high school students enjoyed her storytelling at the University\u2019s 20th <\/sup>annual R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues. As part of her visit, she met with a small group of students at a breakfast, spoke to a crowd of over 2,000 in the M.O. Looney arena, and engaged 400 lunch-goers in a
\nquestion-and-answer session.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was really remarkable both on and off stage,\u201d said Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western\u2019s president.<\/p>\n
Perhaps one of the most renowned presidential scholars, Dr. Kearns Goodwin has written books about six
\npresidents. The 2012 movie, \u201cLincoln,\u201d was based on her book \u201cTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,\u201d and her book \u201cThe Fitzgeralds and Kennedys\u201d was made into an ABC mini-series.<\/p>\n
Dr. Kearns Goodwin told students at the breakfast about her research and writing processes and talked about her
\nlove of history that dates back to telling her father play-by-play accounts of Brooklyn Dodgers games as a 6 year old.<\/p>\n
At the lunch, she explained how each of her books on presidents came about, including the one about Roosevelt and
\nTaft that was released shortly after she visited Missouri Western.<\/p>\n
Dr. Kearns Goodwin said she enjoyed writing about Taft because most people don\u2019t know a lot about him. That was the
\nopposite of Lincoln, she said, who has had more than 14,000 books written about him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou learn so much when you write a book,\u201dshe said. \u201cI felt like I went back to college every time I wrote a book.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln had a lot in common. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, his friend William Taft never understood how to work with the media. And Lyndon Johnson was a great storyteller, although half of the stories he told were not true. These bits of information and more highlighted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}