Newswise — Some of the country's most respected political analysts will gather at Westfield State College to explain the results of the presidential election from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in the college's Woodward Center.
The event is part of the Westfield State College Foundation Speaker Series, which is free and open to the public.
The featured speaker will be Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, presidential historian, and NBC news analyst. She is known as both an expert on the White House and the first woman journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.
A panel to react to Goodwin and review the election will include:"¢ Bill Marimow, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and former president of National Public Radio."¢ Rick Kaplan, producer of the CBS Evening News, winner of 47 Emmy awards and former president of CNN and MSNBC."¢ Terry McAuliffe, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and national chair for Hilary Clinton for President."¢ Emily Rooney, host and executive editor of Greater Boston, WGBH's local issues and public affairs program.
"It would be hard to find a more knowledgeable combination of political analysts to discuss the election," said Westfield State College President Evan S. Dobelle. "Doris Kearns Goodwin's perspective, as one of this country's best presidential historians, should be extremely insightful. It is also a rare opportunity to talk personally with Terry McAuliffe, who is at the center of the action in presidential campaigns, and with top-level journalists such as Bill Marimow, Rick Kaplan and Emily Rooney."
Goodwin worked as an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House, and later assisted Johnson on the preparation of his memoirs.Her writings include Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (a bestseller that earned the Pulitzer Prize), Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.Goodwin was the winner of the Charles Frankel Prize given by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Sara Josepha Hale Medal, awarded to an author living in New England who is pre-eminent in literature or the arts.
She has been a consultant and interviewed extensively for PBS documentaries on LBJ, the Kennedy family, Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham and Mary Lincoln, and Ken Burn' The History of Baseball.
She also has taught about the American presidency at Harvard University, where she earned her Ph.D. She currently lives in Concord, Mass., with her husband, Richard Goodwin, and advisor and speechwriter for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and to Sen. Robert Kennedy.
In addition to her books, Goodwin has written many articles on politics and baseball for national publications. She lectures around the world.
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