Madison Day
Pulitzer Prize Winner to Headline March 15 Celebration
Pulitzer Prizewinning
author Doris Kearns Goodwin will address the university on March 15
as keynote speaker for Madison Day 2002.
Goodwin earned
the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for her bestseller, No
Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World
War II.
A former Harvard University professor and White House Fellow under Lyndon
Johnson, Goodwin is also author of The
Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys
and Lyndon
Johnson and the American Dream.
Many of Goodwin's
biographies offer a unique perspective on what makes a successful leader
and on the motives and actions of our country's greatest political leaders.
Goodwin graduated from Colby College in 1964, and while studying for
her graduate degree, interned with the State Department and the House
of Representatives.
In 1967, Goodwin
became a White House Fellow and later, assistant to President Johnson.
She earned a doctorate degree in government in 1968 and began teaching
courses on the presidency and American history at Harvard University,
where she remained for nearly 10 years.
Other activities
planned for the university's celebration of Madison Week, March 12-15,
include a colloquium on the Second Amendment, a lecture by Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas and tours of the James Madison Center.
For more information
on this year's Madison Week events, call Glenda Rooney, associate vice
president for parent and constituent relations, (540) 568-3193.
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