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April 1, 2000
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Doris Kearns Goodwin To Serve As 2000 AANS Cushing Orator
SAN FRANCISCO - Acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Harvard professor, Doris Kearns Goodwin, is the 2000 Cushing Orator. Mrs. Goodwin will speak about "Leadership in the New Millennium."
Born in New York, Mrs.Goodwin earned her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Colby College in 1964. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1966, and received her doctorate of philosophy in government from Harvard University in 1968. During graduate school, she was chosen to serve as a White House Fellow and assigned to Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, under whom she worked on problems related to ghetto unemployment. Subsequently, President Lyndon B. Johnson had her transferred to the White House, where she served as the president's staff assistant until he left office.
From her White House experience came Mrs. Goodwin's first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. The book, which explores the life of President Johnson both in and out of the White House, topped the New York Times best-seller list for several months and launched her career as a presidential historian. Her second historical book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys was published in 1987 after years of research on the private papers of Joe and Rose Kennedy, and was later transformed into a six-hour miniseries on ABC-TV.
It was her frank look at the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, however, that brought Mrs. Goodwin the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in History. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, provided a fascinating inside look at the state of the nation and its leaders during a time of world turmoil.
A true Renaissance author, Mrs. Goodwin doesn't just write about presidential history. She also is an avid baseball fan and has applied her considerable writing skills to the history of America's pastime. She has written numerous articles on baseball for leading national publications and shattered journalistic taboo by becoming the first female reporter ever to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. She served as a consultant for the PBS television documentary, The History of Baseball and recently completed Wait Till Next Year, a coming-of-age book that documents her life as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 1950s.
In addition to her literary career, Mrs. Goodwin also appears as a political analyst on network television. She serves as a regular contributor to "The Newshour With Jim Lehrer" and appears frequently on ABC 's "Nightline." TV news anchor Peter Jennings describes her as "the most fascinating interview I've ever done."
The AANS is honored to welcome Doris Kearns Goodwin to this year's Annual Meeting. Her participation will continue the ongoing tradition of excellence advanced by previous AANS Cushing Orators.
Founded in 1931 as the Harvey Cushing Society, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is a scientific and educational association with nearly 5,500 members worldwide. The AANS is dedicated to advancing the specialty of neurological surgery in order to provide the highest quality of neurosurgical care to the public. All active members of the AANS are Board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders that affect the spine, brain, nervous system and peripheral nerves.
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Media Representatives: The Annual Meeting press kit can be found in the Media Center Section of the AANS Web site at: http://www.neurosurgery.org/aans.
If you would like to cover the meeting or interview a neurosurgeon - either on-site or via telephone - please contact an AANS Public Relations representative at (847) 692-9500 or call the Annual Meeting Press Room beginning Sunday, April 9 at (415) 978-3715 (3716).
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