Chevy Chase Non Fiction Book Club!

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960's

Join us as we read and discuss this acclaimed history title by Pulitzer Prize winning Presidential Historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

"Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir.

The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested."-- Provided by publisher.

Learn more about the book from the publisher's website here, and visit the author's website.

Copies of the book are currently available for pick up at the circulation desk.  Learn more by visiting this link to our MCPL catalog.

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