Intellectual History: "An Unfinished Love Story," Doris Kearns Goodwin

An UnfinishedLove Story, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Published 2024, 480 pages,

Lesson Plans: Dialecical Journal: 93 pages, 31,194 words. 

“Three spans of one long life traverse the whole of our short national history.  One thing that a look backward over the vicissitudes of our country’s short history suggests is massive and sweeping changes will come.  And it will come swiftly.  Whether or not it is healing, and inclusive change depends on us.  As ever, such change will generally percolate from the ground up, as in the days of the American Revolution, the antislavery movement, the progressive movement, the civil Rights Movement, the women’s movement, the gay rights movement, the environmental movement.  From the long view of my life, I see how history turns and veers.  The end of our country has loomed many times before.  America is not as fragile as it seems.” (9)