Presidential historian and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak at UNLV on April 17 as part of the Barrick Lecture Series.
Her presentation, "Shared Memories," is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall. The event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets may be picked up at the Performing Arts Center box office at Ham Concert Hall beginning April 7. For more information, call 895-2787.
Goodwin, well known to television viewers for her frequent appearances on news shows to discuss presidents -- both current and past -- also is a baseball aficionado, having grown up as a rabid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
She will draw on both of these interests for her "Shared Memories" presentation at UNLV.
Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for her book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War II.
A former assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, Goodwin wrote about Johnson in her book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.
She also is the author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir. The latter recounts her childhood and her obsession with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
All four of the books spent time on the New York Times' bestseller list.
Goodwin is a regular panelist on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and also frequently is seen as a commentator on NBC.
Among the many honors she has received are the National Humanities Medal and the Sara Josepha Hale Medal.
Goodwin, who earned a doctoral degree in government from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Colby College, was a government professor at Harvard for 10 years.
She also worked for Johnson during his last year in the White House and later assisted him on the preparation of his memoirs.
Over the years, she has served as a consultant and as an on-air person for PBS documentaries on Johnson, the Kennedy family, and Franklin Roosevelt, as well as on Ken Burns' The History of Baseball.
She was the first woman journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.
The Barrick Lecture Series, funded through a grant from philanthropist Marjorie Barrick, presents nationally and internationally known speakers from a variety of fields each year at UNLV. The presentations are free and open to the public.
For additional information, call 895-2787.
