It is official, we have chosen Pulitzer Prize winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin and her book, Wait Till Next Year, as 2009's Long Island Reads. This means that libraries across Long Island will read the book, discuss the book, take part in programs and events related to the book (growing up on Long Island, the Brooklyn Dodgers, life in the 1950s) and come together in April to hear Mrs. Goodwin speak! It is all very exciting, especially when I opened my newspaper this morning to see our President elect quoting our Long Island Reads pick!
"Obama hinted broadly during the primaries that he would reach out to political rivals and even Republicans to fill his cabinet, at one point noting he was studying Lincoln's approach, reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Team of Rivals."
'She talks about Lincoln's capacity to bring opponents of his and people who have run against him in his cabinet,' Obama told CBS' Katie Couric in a January interview. 'And he was confident enough to be willing to have these dissenting voices and confident enough to listen to the American people and push them outside of their comfort zone. And I think that part of what I want to do as president is push Americans a little bit outside of their comfort zone. It's a remarkable study in leadership.'"
You can see Mrs. Goodwin's website HERE.
Her books:
Fitzgeralds & the Kennedys: An American Saga, 1991
Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream, 1991
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War II, 1994
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, 1997
Leader to Leader: Enduring Insights on Leadership from the Drucker Foundation's Award-Winning Journal. Editors: Paul M. Cohen, Frances Hesselbein, 1999. Includes an essay by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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I have ordered Wait Til Next Year from my local library...looking forward to a great read!
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