Jazz trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval and popular historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will be among the guests for this year’s Festival of the Arts Boca, which will return for an eighth season to the Mizner Park Amphitheatre. Festival officials unveiled the lineup Friday night in a media event that included a screening of I Am Not a Rock Star, a documentary by Bobbi Jo Hart that … [Read more...]
Doris Kearns Goodwin: On Lincoln, Obama and LBJ
By Chauncey Mabe Doris Kearns Goodwin is a historian with a great sense of timing. Already a Pulitzer Prize winner for No Ordinary Time, her 1995 dual biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Goodwin was basking in the fading glow of her 2005 Abraham Lincoln book, Team of Rivals, when she received a call from an upstart presidential candidate named Barack Obama. “He … [Read more...]