Doris Kearns Goodwin Returns to Kansas City’s Most Anticipated Politically-Themed Event

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – World-renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is returning to the Howard and Virginia Bennett Forum on the Presidency Saturday, Nov. 4 at 6 p.m. Goodwin will be in conversation with The Washington Post‘s David Von Drehle discussing the presidency in the post-truth era.

This event hosted each year by the Truman Library Institute has grown to become a highly anticipated dialogue on politics, the presidency and current events.

Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of six critically-acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books, including her most recent, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin is currently writing a new book focused on presidential leadership.

Von Drehle is a Kansas City-based columnist for The Washington Post, where he writes about national affairs and politics, and award-winning author of four books, including the award-winning bestseller Triangle: The Fire That Changed America and Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year.

“When Doris Kearns Goodwin last spoke at the Bennett Forum in 2015, the event sold out and became a topic of conversation in political circles for months following,” said Alex Burden, executive director of the Truman Library Institute. “Her talented storytelling brings history to life and also provides insight into how historians will interpret our current events.”