She has advised American presidents, won a Pulitzer Prize and written a biography of Lincoln that has sold several million copies and become an Oscar-winning film. But what Doris Kearns Goodwin really wants to talk about is baseball.
Her beloved Boston Red Sox have recently been crowned World Series champions, and the 70-year-old historian, who is a season-ticket holder, could scarcely be more delighted. “It was incredible,” she says, scanning the lunch menu of her Manhattan hotel, before looking up: “I mean, it really was”.
So elegantly dressed, Kearns Goodwin seems an unlikely stalwart of the terraces. Still, she and Richard Goodwin, her husband of 38 years, stayed at Fenway Park until 1am on the night of the best-of-seven clincher. “It was just people singing and drinking,” she says. “Such fun.”
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