Rider University is set to kick off its 150th anniversary celebration with a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Goodwin, a presidential historian, is scheduled to speak 5 p.m. Sept. 16 in Rider’s Bart Luedeke Center.
Her talk focuses on the leadership lessons of Abraham Lincoln and will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Goodwin’s award-winning book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, is an epic tome that illuminates Lincoln’s political genius and rise to become president.
Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. She earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and served as assistant to President Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House.
Advance registration to attend Goodwin’s presentation is required. Registration is online at rider.edu/dkg or by phone at (609) 896-5001.
Goodwin’s presentation is the first in many events planned to honor Rider’s sesquicentennial. The year-long celebration will begin in September, and will commemorate the past, celebrate the present and look forward to the future.
More information is online at rider.edu/150.
