An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin and her husband Richard Goodwin both lived close to the center of 1960s American politics. Richard wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and over the years he packed away 300 boxes of letters, memos, and keepsakes. Near the end of his life the couple finally opened them together, and this book is the result, part memoir of their marriage and part firsthand history of a turbulent decade. Goodwin moves between personal memory and national events, from the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War, weaving a love story into the larger story of a country in upheaval.
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The presidential historian opens the 300 boxes her late husband saved from the 1960s and revisits the decade through their shared life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and author of Team of Rivals and No Ordinary Time, among other books.
It is both. It tells the story of Goodwin's marriage to Richard Goodwin while using his saved papers to revisit the major events of the 1960s.
An Unfinished Love Story was written by Doris Kearns Goodwin, published in 2024 by Simon & Schuster.
An Unfinished Love Story is 480 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, An Unfinished Love Story takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
An Unfinished Love Story is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.