Simon & Schuster An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

This book was really moving to me. Excellent writing with personal accounts so helpful. As someone who lived in the time, reminded me of all we changed. Highly recommend

As usual with Doris Kern Godwin's histories this book is more than just a history of the Kennedys and President Johnson and the fight for civil rights. With the background of the sixties Ms Godwin also gives us a detailed picture of her husband and herself in those exciting times, working in the White House, writing famous speeches for the presidents (her husband), sharing President Johnson's memories near the end of his life (herself) and the many devoted Americans who believed in the changing times and the end of racism. It is also the story of Godwin's life with her husband and their shared interests and love of America. Written after the death of her husband, the book is a tribute to him and to his political fights.

very practising, effective and useful as well as have a very great analysis.

A great novel about what happened in politics in the JFK/LBJ from those at the coal face

Finished this book yesterday. This woman is one of my favorite historians (I do have a few). She was married to Dick Goodwin for 40 years, until he died in 2018. He served as an advisor and speechwriter for JFK, LBJ, and RFK - and also worked on Eugene McCarthy’s campaign for the presidency in 1968. He was the guy who coined the term “The Great Society” for Johnson, and also wrote Johnson’s famous speech before Congress (in response to Bloody Sunday) which was punctuated with Johnson movingly declaring “ … and we SHALL overcome.” He also became a close personal friend of Jackie Kennedy before JFK’s election, and remained so until her death in three 1990’s.As for the author, she worked for LBJ in the last months of his administration, helped to pen his autobiography, and wrote her first book about him. She and Goodwin did not know each other until after their turns with these great leaders.The book resulted from the two of them going through tons of boxes of original historical documents Goodwin had kept from his years around these great figures. It is replete with first-person, behind-the-scenes reporting of the great events of the history-changing years of the New Frontier, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the anti-war movement which capped off those years. Whether you lived through those years as I and my friends did, or not, this is a dynamic period of American history - and the book tells the story in an engaging fashion that Doris Kearns-Goodwin is known for. Highly recommended!!