Carolyn Wheat

210-999-8406

cwheat@trinity.edu

Expert on Presidency to Speak at Trinity University

March 29, 2000  - World-renowned journalist and author Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak at Trinity University on Tuesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium.  Her address, "Shared Memories," is part of the Cameron Lecture in Politics and Public Affairs lecture series.  Admission is free. Goodwin has been reporting on politics for more than two decades.  She is a regular panelist on PBS' The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, a commentator for NBC, and a consultant and on-air person for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy family, and Franklin Roosevelt. Goodwin is the author of bestsellers Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II, which also won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1995.  She taught government at Harvard for 10 years, including a course on the American presidency.  Following her tenure at Harvard, she served as an assistant to Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House.  She later assisted Johnson in the preparation of his memoirs. An expert on baseball, Goodwin served as a consultant and on-air personality for Ken Burns' "The History of Baseball."  She was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.  Her most recent book, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, is about growing up in the 1950's in love with the Brooklyn Dodgers and is a bestseller. The Cameron Lecture in Politics and Public Affairs is made possible by an endowment fund established by Mrs. Flora C. Crichton.  Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.  For more information, call (210) 999-8406.

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