Doris Kearns Goodwin: What we can learn from past presidents

http://www.ted.com Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball.

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[ShalomFreedman]

This is a true gem, certainly one of the finest of the TED TALKS. Doris Kearns Goodwin shows a real understanding of human character and reality. She tells her stories wonderfully. She displays an intelligence and humor which are great indeed.

[787Bisurdaddy]

That the Civil War was solely about slavery is the biggest myth history has ever perpetrated. Funny that none of the other Western nations that abolished slavery in the 19th century had to resort to violence. The myth also ignores the fact that there were already southern plans to end slavery.

I believe it was probably one of the most poorly handled events in US history. Thomas DiLorenzo has a great article about it called "How the West (Except for the U.S.) Ended Slavery".

[residentzombie]

@ShalomFreedman Doris K Goodwins suffers from libido dominandi. She is a court historians that worships government authoritarians that don't take serious civil liberties and freedom. Doris worships murdering, lying, conniving, unmoral, and thieving people that call themselves politicians and refuses individuals to have any personnal liberty if her god politicians don't want you to have freedom. She is a doublespeaking, statist, totalitarian pig that is a cancer on humanity.

[royals1985brett]

What are all these negative comments doing after such a goosebump raising story. My god, you internet trolls are all cynics. im a history major, but it seems to me most of us liberal arts majors tend to be cynics. Sure, Lincoln might have had some prejudices, Johnson too. I DO TOO and I AM A LIBERAL. But at the heart of it, all of us humans want to do the right thing. Were all looking to do whats right in our mind. Even Hitler. Jesus believe in the human spirit, cuz theres nothing else mo hopefu

[royals1985brett]

Lincoln's character always gives me goosebumps

[sdhscrosscountry]

I enjoy the information on Abraham Lincoln . He is very interesting, his early life, and his adult life. There is something I disagree about Lyndon Johnson .. I feel he was not the President the country thought he was . I feel that his drive to the White House and the Vietnam War.. was a result to the death of John Kennedy.

[infinitehumanstupid]

Stories is what she tells... I've listened lectures on A. Lincoln, and he was gloomy as hell all his life. Also his morality was perhaps good back then, but on today's standards he was an utter racist.

It is a human tendency to make history into golden tales... some of these TED talks are really annoying, some are awesome.

[RunLiberty]

Court historian for the state? ouch

Ron Paul 2012

[huckstered]

That's plagiarist, by the way.

[huckstered]

I have jeard the same thing lately,

I also heard this about MLK.

[jmad627]

she's a plagerist.

[magicznawiertara]

"Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in" ;)