Doris Kearns Goodwin Books in Order
Doris Kearns Goodwin has written 9 books, published between 1976 and 2024. The first book is Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976) and the newest is The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1976–2024
- Confirmed
- 9 of 9 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,692 in 7 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 78–117 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,692 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Doris Kearns Goodwin writes history and biography about American presidents and the politics around them. 9 catalogued titles run from Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976) through The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), No Ordinary Time (1994), the memoir Wait Till Next Year (1997), Team of Rivals (2005) and The Bully Pulpit (2013). The newest title, The Leadership Journey, tells the story of four children who became president.
How many Doris Kearns Goodwin books are there?
Doris Kearns Goodwin has 9 books, released between 1976 and 2024.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Doris Kearns Goodwin books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Lyndon Johnson and the American DreamDoris Kearns Goodwin Non-Fiction #11976 · 432 pages · confirmed 3/419764323/4
- 219879323/4
- 319947683/4
- 419972613/4
- 520059164/4
- 620139104/4
- 720184734/4
- 8An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960sDoris Kearns Goodwin Non-Fiction #82024 · confirmed 4/42024–4/4
- 9The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became PresidentDoris Kearns Goodwin Non-Fiction #92024 · confirmed 4/42024–4/4
Doris Kearns Goodwin books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Non-Fiction
9 books9 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Doris Kearns Goodwin books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 9 Doris Kearns Goodwin books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Start with Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Doris Kearns Goodwin book?
The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President (2024) is the newest Doris Kearns Goodwin book released so far.
Is there a new Doris Kearns Goodwin book coming?
No next Doris Kearns Goodwin book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Doris Kearns Goodwin has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Doris Kearns Goodwin. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award2015Won
- Pulitzer Prize for History1995Wonfor No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin at a glance
- Still publishing
- Doris Kearns Goodwin published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Doris Kearns Goodwin books have appeared about one every 6 years on average.
- Length
- 4,692 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 768 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Doris Kearns Goodwin books, 2 of 9, were published in the 2020s.
- Corroboration
- 5 of the 9 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Doris Kearns Goodwin books are about
8 of the 9 Doris Kearns Goodwin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 4 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 4 of 8 books
- History 4 of 8 books
- Politics and government 3 of 8 books
- Presidents 3 of 8 books