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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Clip: 11/26/2013 | 15m 7s  | Video has closed captioning.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin joins us to talk about her latest epic biography on the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft that brought radical change to America. Read an excerpt from Chapter One of The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

Aired: 11/26/13

Rating: NR

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