Heads up: Doris Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals, up next on C-Span

[cali]

will be discussing Obama in the context of her book.

[elleng]

1. Team of Rivals

The leader has to be a leader.

[cali]

2. Are you listening. I wish more DUers were.

This is a fascinating discussion. And oh, I think it's fairly clear that Obama is a leader.

[elleng]

14. It is indeed fascinating.

I was not listening to c-span at the time, but I always listen to Doris as we attended the same high school.

It does appear that he is a leader. Especially interesting is the story of his leadership of Harvard Law Review, which suggests he may have what it takes at least to begin to approach our very difficult problems.

[onehandle]

3. She's talented. Pretty good timing for that book.

Lucky? Or did she have her suspicions?

This is her definitive area of expertise.

[cali]

4. she's a very smart, very intuitive person

and she's lucky too.

[Captain Hilts]

10. She devises great framework for her books, but her research is often lousy...

She missed some key sources in "No Ordinary Time" that would have changed the texture of the book.

She farms out nearly all the research.

[WI_DEM]

11. the book came out in 2005 and she spent ten years prior to that doing research

so probably more luck. It certainly has revived sales of a three year old book.

[H2O Man]

5. Thanks.

She is an outstanding historian. More, she is a calm voice of reason.

[davidpdx]

6. I'm trying to get a copy of it here in Korea

It should be an interesting read.

[Jennicut]

7. I have loved Doris for years, since the 90's when I was only a teenager

Very insightful historian.

[cali]

8. and this is a fantastic segment.

I agree about Doris. I knew her many years ago, when I worked for her now husband, Dick Goodwin. She was dating him seriously at the time, but they weren't yet living together.

[JuniperLea]

16. The speach writer?

Kennedy, Johnson, Kennedy?

[beachmom]

9. I hope somebody can put this up on You Tube. I missed most of it.

Thanks for the heads up.

[apnu]

12. Damn I'm so sick of this book!

Its like a good song that gets played to death on the radio until you hate it and for years can't listen to it because its so over played.

[Thrill]

13. Obama is making her and Jonathan Alter a ton of money

I went to two Barnes and Noble in Charlotte and the book was sold out

[JuniperLea]

15. Rats... I had to miss this...

I've been monitoring something else for work:( Extremely low-brow, mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, trash talking, tabloid crap... ugh. I swear I've lost 50 IQ points on this project today.

Doris Goodwin would have been a breath of fresh air... maybe I can find it later in a podcast or something.

[mwei924]

17. She must be cashing in on the fact that Obama reads her book/

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Link to CSPAN video of program

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=282522-8

[asdjrocky]

19. I was lucky enough to get through this morning and ask her a question.

[realFedUp]

20. DKG, Plagerist

http://www.slate.com/?id=2061056

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Liar

First she plagiarized. Then she claimed it wasn't plagiarism.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002, at 4:43 PM ET
Did Doris Kearns Goodwin commit plagiarism? "Absolutely not," she tells Boston Globe reporter Thomas C. Palmer Jr. "There were extensive footnotes.'' Chatterbox has had it with brand-name historians who pretend that the rules allow you to steal someone else's sentences (for examples of Goodwin's theft, click here) provided that you supply a footnote. This is not a gray area. Here is how Harvard University, where Goodwin received her Ph.D. and was previously a professor of government, addresses the matter in a handbook for a freshman composition course that all undergraduates are required to take:

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