Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s | 2024 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Buy |
An Unfinished Love Story (2024) represents a departure from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s previous books. Rather than a presidential biography, it weaves her personal relationship with her late husband Dick Goodwin — a speechwriter for Kennedy and Johnson — with the history of the 1960s that they sorted through together in his final years.
The book draws on boxes of papers, letters, and memorabilia to reconstruct a decade of American upheaval through the eyes of someone who helped shape it. It is simultaneously a love story and a political history, bringing Goodwin’s biographical skills to bear on her most personal subject.