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A review by somanytictoc
Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.0
DNF- about 50 pages left.
Goodwin is a stellar historian. I couldn't bring myself to finish this one though, mainly due to its patchwork nature. The book feels like sections copy/pasted from much longer works. While the text is very accessible, she kind of dips in and out of portions of the presidents' lives with slightly bumpy transitions.
There is a structure to the book, to be fair. It just felt like one of those "previously on this tv show" segments at the beginning of some programs, attempting to form a cohesive narrative but mostly just jarring the reader at precisely the moment things started getting good.
Goodwin is a stellar historian. I couldn't bring myself to finish this one though, mainly due to its patchwork nature. The book feels like sections copy/pasted from much longer works. While the text is very accessible, she kind of dips in and out of portions of the presidents' lives with slightly bumpy transitions.
There is a structure to the book, to be fair. It just felt like one of those "previously on this tv show" segments at the beginning of some programs, attempting to form a cohesive narrative but mostly just jarring the reader at precisely the moment things started getting good.