{"id":3403,"date":"2025-03-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T22:10:24","slug":"the-leadership-journey-how-four-kids-became-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Doris Kearns Goodwin<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TheLeadershipJourney.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TheLeadershipJourney.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3404\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes a definitive middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson and how they became leaders.<\/strong>  Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lyndon B. Johnson. They grew up and lived in very different worlds\u2014Lincoln was poor and uneducated, his frontier cabin home deep in the harsh wilderness; Theodore Roosevelt hailed from an elegant home in the heart of New York City and traveled the world with his family; Franklin Roosevelt loved the outdoors surrounding his family\u2019s rural estate where he was the center of attention; and Lyndon Johnson\u2019s modest childhood home had no electricity or running water but provided a window into Texas politics. So how did each of them do it\u2014rise to become President of the United States? What did these four kids have individually\u2014and have in common\u2014that made them the ones to lead the country through some of its most turbulent times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goshen Public Library call number:  <\/strong> J973.099 GOODWIN (BOOK-J)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doris Kearns Goodwin Year of Publication:\u00a02024 A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp; From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes a definitive middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson and how they became leaders. Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}