Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote

We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy, he proclaimed, instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteousness and justice, in the interests of their own people even more than in the interests of ours.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy, he proclaimed, instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteousness and justice, in the interests of their own people even more than in the interests of ours.

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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.