Doris Kearns Goodwin's personal history in "An Unfinished Love Story"

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Her work, of course, is serious, but she shares it with joy, and sometimes a laugh, as when she made an entrance on "The Late Show Starring Stephen Colbert" on a litter carried by Lincoln impersonators.
"The Late Show Starring Stephen Colbert" Goodwin, now 81, is renowned for telling the story of America, often through the prism of the presidency, including with her biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, the Kennedys, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
"An Unfinished Love Story" (to be published April 16 by Simon & Schuster) is about her late husband, Richard Goodwin, and his adventures in the turbulent 1960s, writing speeches for titans like John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and LBJ.
See also: Doris Kearns Goodwin on whether we are living in "the worst of times" ("Sunday Morning") Time will tell: Historians on judging presidential leadership ("Sunday Morning") * Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on "cutting the past some slack" ("Sunday Morning") Robert Costa Robert Costa is the Chief Election & Campaign correspondent for CBS News, where he covers national politics and American democracy.