Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Team of Rivals was selected to inaugurate the new CBS This Morning reading initiative. The book has been re-released to coincide with Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln, based in part on the book.

On TV

"We belong to our families, we belong to our communities, but sometimes you really realize you belong to your home towns," said Doris on Sunday's Meet the Press. "And I am so proud of what Boston did this week."

Doris regarding the Boston Marathon explosions says: "The other side of this is that it brings out the best in us even as these terrible guys bring out the worst in themselves.... Together we can undo most things that happen--if we work together." On Meet the Press on MSNBC.

60 Minutes on CBS features Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis and Doris talking about Lincoln!

Doris and fellow historians Robert Caro, Douglas Brinkley and Michael Beschloss speak about the historical significance of a Presidential Inauguration and a President's second term.

Doris says, "The fact that we have a President who reads history means that he learns from previous presidents, not just from his first term...and that is a really helpful thing." On Charlie Rose.

Doris says: President Obama "has to make the country understand that he is framing a debate on the importance of government." On Charlie Rose.

"If a president is self aware and can reflect on what went wrong and what went right in the first term, then the second term offers amazing opportunities," Doris said on Charlie Rose.

Doris on NBC says: The Civil Rights Movement, Gay Rights Movement, and Women's Movement are critical in transforming our attitudes about ourselves and about one another, and that's where real change takes place."

"There is no question that Lincoln's beauty of language is something that everybody reaches for," says Doris. "But the more important thing for an Inaugural [address] is for the words to create action." On NBC.

Doris says: "[Obama's] second term could be much more important than the first term, because he cares about history." On NBC.

Doris says: we need to figure out how we are going to invest in our future and deal with the debt on the other side. On Morning Joe's special inauguration coverage. MSNBC.

This day is our "secular religion," says Doris about President Obama's second Inauguration. On Morning Joe's special Inauguration coverage. MSNBC.

It is so important for a President to care about history; it gives them a whole set of layering experience to learn from, says Doris on Weekends with Alex Witt. On MSNBC.

"[President Obama] has to show energy and aspiration and desire to really do something big despite the stale political arguments," says Doris discussing the second Inauguration of President Obama on The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd. On MSNBC.

Doris says: "The most important thing to look for in a second term is: What does the President learn from the experience of the first term?" On Piers Morgan Tonight. On CNN.

CSPAN airs Doris's talk from the ceremony on the 149th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" at the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg.

Doris discusses Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. On NBC.

Doris says: "The most important thing a president has to do—knowing he has limited capital—is to decide where to put his ambitions and where to hold back." On MSNBC's Meet the Press.

"I think that [President Obama] has learned what Theodore Roosevelt had learned: that when you are speaking to the American people and you want to make an argument it has to be simple," says Doris on Meet the Press. On MSNBC.

Doris talking Lincoln on Morning Joe. On MSNBC.

Best-selling author David Baldacci selects Doris's "Team of Rivals" as a must-gift book for the holidays. On NBC's TODAY show with David Gregory and Savannah Guthrie.

Doris. Lincoln. The Kudlow Report. CNBC.

Doris. Lincoln. Hardball with Chris Matthews. MSNBC.

Doris joins Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation Sunday along with Jon Meacham, Evan Thomas & Bob Woodward.

Lincoln Author On New Movie

Press Pass: Author Doris Kearns Goodwin on the new Spielberg film, Lincoln.

Doris with Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News

Doris on CBS This Morning with Gayle King, Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell

Doris on Meet the Press

Doris with Charlie Rose

Doris with Stephen Colbert

Find out how this presidential race ranks among campaigns from the past. Doris on KTIV News 4.

Doris presented the 2012 Waitt Lecture at Morningside College.

Steven Spielberg says "Team of Rivals" is "brilliant."

On Morning Joe. Steven Spielberg and "Time" magazine managing editor Richard Stengel discuss "Time's" new Lincoln cover and the upcoming film, as well as Doris's featured "Time" article.

Doris on Morning Joe

Doris discusses how presidential debates can impact the election outcome. On CBS This Morning.

Doris examines the changing role of political conventions in American society.

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.

Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke to a capacity crowd at Aurora University on Feb. 7, 2012, as part of the Celebrating Arts and Ideas series.

Doris with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell talking about Lincoln, Watergate and Reagan

Late Show with David Letterman

NBC's Brian Williams interviews the great conductor John Williams

On this installment of "Books of Our Time," host Dean Lawrence R. Velvel unravels the keys to Abraham Lincoln’s leadership genius.