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Not My Job: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Quizzed On The Future

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Not My Job: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Quizzed On The Future

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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written a series of presidential histories — covering Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Her book about Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, helped inspire the movie Lincoln,and her latest book, The Bully Pulpit, is about Teddy Roosevelt.

Since Goodwin is an expert on presidents of the past, we're going to quiz her about presidents of the future — three questions about leaders from science fiction.

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