“Doris Kearns Goodwin is a rare presence on our national stage – an historian with academic cred and pop-culture cachet.”—CBS News

“I loved this book. It is so filled with wonderful stories that are so personal and an account of history that you don't often get.” —Alan Alda

"An Unfinished Love Story offers a bird’s-eye view of familiar events, and of a decade marked by both idealism and political violence.”—Los Angeles Times

“A very powerful and important read….a great, great book.” —Wolf Blitzer, CNN

“[Doris’s] beautiful touch is all over this book.”—Hoda Kotb, NBC’s Today Show

“This is very unlike any book you’ve seen from Doris Kearns Goodwin—I’ve read them all. ‘Team of Rivals’ is my favorite, but this is the one that blows it away because it’s emotional.” —Neil Cavuto, Fox News Channel

“It is a love story—one to her late husband and one to our great country.” —Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC

“Amazing…so personal…it’s just fabulous.” —Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC

“A beautiful book.”—Willie Geist, MSNBC

"An illuminating and inspiring blend of biography, history, memoir and marital banter."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A touching invitation to eavesdrop on a long marriage between two people who had an unusual level of access to presidential policy and personality."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Just as An Unfinished Love Story is a testament to the Kearns Goodwin marriage, so is it a love story of the United States and its democratic government. The many speeches written by Goodwin, the writings of Kearns Goodwin and both their reflections demonstrate that words do indeed matter."—The Columbus Dispatch

"An intimate political history....about the love of historical research, in this case demonstrated by a joint examination of 300 boxes of documents, drafts, and the personal flotsam accumulated over the course of a marriage played out in the arena of American politics. And about the love of America, its past and future, its struggles and promise"—The Boston Globe

"Despite so many predecessors, Goodwin’s new book, An Unfinished Love Story, manages to be different thananything that has come before. Goodwin and her husband, Richard, were both extremely close to the Kennedys andJohnson, and each of them held on to their fierce and competing loyalties to the presidents through four decades of marriage….Kearns gives us hundreds of interesting vignettes about the time she and her husband spent with these historiccharacters. But the spine of the book is the eternal debate about who deserved more credit for the landmarklegislative accomplishments of the ’60s — JFK or LBJ."—Charles Kaiser, The Washington Post

“Goodwin has given us another gift. Engrossing as always, beautifully written as always, it is several stories simultaneously....The book is also timely.”—Boston Herald

"An outstanding book that... will bring back memories both good and bad from this turbulent period and provide insights that will be new for many readers."—Bowling Green Daily News 

“A heartfelt tribute to the author’s late husband and a captivating reflection on this pivotal era in American politics.”—Kirkus