This is a wonderful look at not only the relationship between Doris Kearns Goodwin and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin, but also an in-depth memoir about both of their experiences working in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the 1960s. This was my Albany book club's December pick, but none of us finished in time, so it's carried over to January. I thought it would be mostly about their personal relationship, but there is a lot of substantive history here. It's fascinating to read about their experiences, bolstered by the artifacts and documents that they explore as they root through Dick Goodwin's hundreds of boxes of archives. It was also interesting to see how their opinions about John and Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson evolved as they reviewed the events of the 1960s from the vantage point of 50 years in the future. I loved the writing and couldn't put the book down.
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