I have finally gotten around to reading and will soon review Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and highly recommend it. Her focus is on four separate but interdependent subjects: The Progressive Era (from the 1890s until the 1920s), “The Gold Age of Journalism” (exemplified by McClure’s Magazine), and two of the dominant figures during most of that era, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft,

Here’s a direct link to Charlie Rose’s interview of her.

For those who prefer abbreviations, here’s a direct link to Jon Stewart’s lively interview of her.

Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time, which was a bestseller in hardcover and trade paper. She is also the author of Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin.

To learn more about her, please click here.