Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote

In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, he began, you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward. Bunyan’s muckraker, he suggested, typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, he began, you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward. Bunyan’s muckraker, he suggested, typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing.

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About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of "Abraham Lincoln", a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.