Prize winning author, Doris Kearns Goodwin, easily captured the attention of
nearly 500 guests during the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation's Annual
Founders Dinner on November 7 at the Minneapolis Hilton. With her rich and witty
knowledge of baseball and presidential history, she offered extra-ordinary
insight into a national pastime and the lives of three past Presidents and their
families.
Mrs. Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt, and is the author of the very personal memoir Wait Till Next
Year, about a love of baseball shared with her father. She demonstrated further
proof of her talents as a storyteller and historian by recounting The
Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. The
generosity of 41 sponsors provided a wonderful evening of entertainment that
raised $95,000 for the Foundation's research and education programs.
