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Doris Kearns Goodwin (born January 4 , 1943 ) is an award-winning Author and Historian . She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. EARLY LIFE Doris Kearns was born in Brooklyn, New York , and grew up in Rockville Centre, New York . She received her undergraduate degree from Colby College in 1964 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University . CAREER AND AWARDS Goodwin went to Washington, D.C. , as a White House Fellow in 1967 during the Johnson administration, working as his assistant. After the ball to celebrate the selection of the White House fellows, ". . .the president discovered that I had been actively involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement and had written an article entitled "How to Dump Lyndon Johnson." I thought for sure he would kick me out of the program, but instead he said, "Oh, bring her down here for a year and if I can't win her over, no one can."1 After he left office, she assisted the President in drafting his memoirs. In 1975 she married Richard N. Goodwin , who had worked in the Johnson and Kennedy administration as an adviser and a speechwriter. Goodwin taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American Presidency. Goodwin is also a baseball fan. She was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room and she consulted for Ken Burns ' documentary '' Baseball ''. Goodwin won the in 1998. Goodwin won the 2005 Lincoln Prize (for best book about the American Civil War ) for ''Team of Rivals'', a book about Abraham Lincoln 's Presidential Cabinet . CHARGES OF PLAGIARISM The January 18, 2002, issue of . In a March 24, 2002, interview with the Associated Press , McTaggart said, "If somebody takes a third of somebody's book, which is what happened to me, they are lifting out the heart and guts of somebody else's individual expression." Once this was made public – and the almost identical phrases in Goodwin’s book were placed in numerous newspaper and magazine articles side by side with the originals from which she plagiarized - Goodwin admitted that she had previously reached a large "private settlement" with McTaggart for plagiarizing her work. An August 2002 FAMILY She married Richard N. Goodwin in 1975. They have three sons, Richard, Michael, and Joseph. BOOKS
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A History of Plagiarism (2002)
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