Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote

The choice of Blaine speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party, he ruefully continued. It may be that ‘the voice of the people is the voice of God’ in fifty one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool. Still,

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The choice of Blaine speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party, he ruefully continued. It may be that ‘the voice of the people is the voice of God’ in fifty one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool. Still,

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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.