Description:
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. SIGNED. Purchased new. NF/F. Stated Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Doris Kearns Goodwin on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 473 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope.
