Doris Kearns was an assistant professor of history at Harvard University in 1972, teaching a course on the American presidency, and embarking on the book that would mark the start of her remarkable career as a popular historian, “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,” as Richard N. Goodwin entered his office. A legendary speechwriter for …
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Shortly after being hired to run the Ransom Center, Dr. Staley learned that the archives of Stuart Gilbert, Joyce’s translator and friend, were available. According to The New Yorker, the papers that cost the Ransom Center $265,000 came with an unexpected find: handwritten edits of the first episode of Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.” Dr. Staley estimated …
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Goodwin’s archives include his public service as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, his work as a House subcommittee inspector on the fraudulent television game show “Twenty-One” (a story adapted from the 1994 film “Quiz Show”), as well as working for Kennedy and As notes and notes showing how he helped shape national …
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Apple TV+ series “Dickinson” won accolades Emily Dickinson’s take on her life in an absurdist, existential way makes the poet a passionate proto-feminist who is changing direction in a time as turbulent as ours. But even the most extravagant flights of fantasy have been grounded in historical science and cutting-edge literary theory, acquiring him an …
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