The Leadership Journey, Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Leadership Journey, Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The Leadership Journey

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrator: Dion Graham, Rufus Jones, Christian McKay, Graham Sibley, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2024


Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes an essential middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and how they became leaders.

All four presidents profiled grew up and lived in very different worlds—Lincoln was poor and self-educated; Theodore Roosevelt hailed from an elegant home in the heart of New York City; Franklin Roosevelt loved the outdoors surrounding his family’s rural estate; and Lyndon Johnson’s modest childhood home had no electricity or running water. So how did each of them do it—rise to become President of the United States? What did these four kids have individually—and have in common—that catapulted them to lead America through some of its most turbulent times?

About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK, and MLK—and events of this momentous decade.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on September 15, 2024

Intended for a middle grade audience, this new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin focuses on how four kids from very different backgrounds - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson - grew up to lead the country. She has spent years researchin......more

Goodreads review by Julieann on October 30, 2024

This a very, very good book - for the right audience. A big part of the problem is the education level. While it would be a very useful book for most 6th graders -well, everyone has heard of Abraham Lincoln, but do they know he was the U.S. President during the Civil War? A lot of the kids have hear......more

Goodreads review by Chad on September 24, 2024

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book, “The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President,” is a compelling exploration of the formative years and ascension to power of four of America’s most notable presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Goodwi......more

Goodreads review by Ted on January 15, 2025

I heard Doris Kearns Goodwin discuss this new book on a Gilder Lehrman Zoom book talk and it sounded quite interesting, so I put it on my Christmas wish list. But I need to warn prospective readers of this book: it is a children's book, not an adult book (I would put it at Grade 6 reading level). Th......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on January 03, 2025

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a brilliant writer: her Pulitzer and numerous other awards attests to that. This is her first book written specifically for juvenile readers. In The Leadership Journey, Goodwin analyzes how the childhoods of four men: Abraham Lincoln, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon......more


Quotes

"Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has reconstructed her set of presidential biographies about four great American leaders to aim at a young audience...Rufus Jones provides a well-bred tone for Theodore Roosevelt, and Christian McKay gives FDR’s voice a hint of his distinctive upper-class accent...Johnson is portrayed by Dion Graham with a robust Southern voice. In the conclusion, Goodwin herself warmly addresses her listeners with reminders that even the greatest leaders have faults."