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Doris Kearns Goodwin's best selling 1997 book,
Wait Till Next Year, prepared us for a season when Mark
McGwire and Sammy Sosa made baseball fans of us all. The first
woman journalist ever to enter the Red Sox locker room, Ms.
Kearns has had close-up access to other heavy hitters-of the
political sort. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
was called by its New York Times' reviewer, "the most
penetrating political biography" he had ever read. Her histories,
The Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys and the Pulitzer
Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt: The Home Front During World War II, helped us to
know these presidents and their families as never before. A
regular commentator on the "News Hour with Jim Lehrer,"
"Nightline," and the morning news shows, Ms. Kearns demonstrates
an extraordinary talent for interpreting contemporary events in
the context of their historical precedents. Join us on Sunday,
October 18 when she comes to Storrs to help celebrate the
rededication of the Homer Babbidge Library.
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