Beloved historian Doris Kearns Goodwin artfully weaves together biography, memoir and history as she revisits the life and work she and her husband—Dick Goodwin—shared for 42 years. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. This personal time capsule of the 1960s illuminates public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference. Hardcover, 496 pages.