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Introduction
In 1972, Doris Kearns arrived at Harvard University to finish a book project. She was introduced to Richard Dick
Goodwin, who had worked in John Kennedy's White House and served as Lyndon Johnson's chief speechwriter. They had a conversation about various topics, including writing, literature, philosophy, science, astronomy, sex, evolution, gossip, and the Red Sox.
Dick had left the White House in 1965 due to concerns about the Vietnam War. He had been criticised by the administration's foreign policy establishment and Ambassador Averell Harriman for biting the hand that fed him. Dick had an edgy nonconformist streak, a distinct gravity, a world-weariness, a sharp wit, yet a kindness in his eyes and gestures.
Dick suggested they continue their conversation over dinner at a restaurant on Beacon Hill in Boston. The author shared her childhood in Rockville Centre, New York, and her love for history and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dick interrupted her several times but only asked further questions about her mother and father. After dinner, Dick told her about growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, attending Tufts College and Harvard Law School. He had recently returned to Cambridge from rural Maine and wanted his son to be schooled in the Boston area.
Dick abruptly changed the subject to the Red Sox, the baseball team he adored despite a lifelong expectation they would fail. When he dropped her off at her house, he hugged her face and said good night. With Dick's office in the same building as hers, they became good friends, the deepest friendship of her life.
The author recounts her experience of falling in love with Dick and Richard, a couple who had been separated by Sandra's death. They struggled to balance their teaching and writing lives, and eventually realized that they had fallen in love. However, Dick's life turmoil made it impossible for him to commit to a long-term relationship, which the author wanted. He worried about his son, work, and finances, and feared the consequences if their relationship didn't work out.
The author sought support from psychiatrist Dr. Grete Bibring, who helped her understand her love for Dick but advised her to accept his decision to stay apart for the time being. Dick and Richard moved to Washington, where Dick became political editor at Rolling Stone magazine. The author worked hard to put her life back together without them, but eventually met Dick in Cambridge and they got married in December 1975.
The couple decided to make Concord, Massachusetts their permanent home, as they both longed for the bustle of big-city life and the tranquility of the country. Concord was a perfect compromise, as it had a rich history and was the seedbed of the American Revolution. Dick was a boisterous patriot, and he would recite The Shot Heard Round the World
on the North Bridge, which the author found extinguishing.
The author and her husband, Dick, had a successful marriage and children, including Michael and Joe. They decided to stop teaching and pursue a career as a full-time writer, but found it challenging to balance their teaching duties with writing. Dick encouraged them to write biography and history, but the author struggled with writing quickly.
The author found it difficult to balance work and family, especially when they had three young boys. To overcome this, they created a workspace in the Concord Public Library, where they could focus for hours each morning. The author's love for libraries began in middle school, and they would often exchange pages and discuss their thoughts.
Dick's political career in the Sixties enriched the author's understanding of political choice and action. He continued to write books, articles, and columns, exploring the passions and achievements that shaped change in the Sixties.
The couple lived on Main Street in Concord, close to various amenities such as libraries, bookstores, and schools. Dick was the coach of Richard's Little League team, and the author was the team's scorekeeper. They took their children to Red Sox games, and the author felt an invisible loyalty and love linking them to their grandfather.
During high school, the family enjoyed various activities, such as wrestling matches, lacrosse games, school plays, guitar lessons, baseball card auctions, Star Trek, and comic book conventions. The house became the hub of activity for their children's friends, and the author and her husband would often find themselves waiting for the next action to begin.
The author and his wife, Doris, had a collection of over three hundred boxes of memorabilia from Dick's life, including handwritten letters, mementos, and drafts of speeches. They had to quickly select diaries, some drafts of speeches, personal letters, and memos between Dick and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The boxes represented a unique and comprehensive archive of the Sixties, but Dick resisted the idea of excavating them, believing that the end of the Sixties had cast a dark curtain on the entire decade.
One summer morning, Dick revealed that his eighty-year lifespan occupies more than a third of the republic's history, meaning that our democracy is merely three Goodwins
long. He believed that massive and sweeping