Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will visit both Twin City universities next month – including one event that’s free and open to the public.
Goodwin’s Oct. 6 appearance is part of the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series, co-hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University.
Goodwin will speak at 7 p.m. that day at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center basketball arena with a presentation titled, Leadership in Turbulent Times: Advice for Today from Our Best Presidents. The moderated program, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by audience Q&A. Registration is appreciated for planning purposes but not required.
Earlier in the day, from 2-3 p.m., Goodwin will present to a master class for ISU students in the Circus Room of the Bone Student Center.
Goodwin has authored numerous critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books, including the Carnegie Medal winner The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism; and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning film “Lincoln.” No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II earned her the Pulitzer Prize, and one of her most recent works, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, became an instant bestseller and is being developed as a feature film.
The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series is named after Bloomington native Adlai E. Stevenson II, former Illinois governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
