Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will speak at Rider University on Tuesday, September 16 at 5 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center. The event, which officially marks the kickoff of the university’s 150th anniversary celebration, is free and open to the public.

Ms. Goodwin’s talk will focus on the leadership lessons of Abraham Lincoln and will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Her award-winning book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, illuminates Lincoln’s political genius and rise to become president.

As a historian, Ms. Goodwin says, “Your hope is that people looking back into the past can see the contours of the present and feel a sense of depth to their own lives and the lives of their countrymen so they don’t feel like they’re confronting problems totally alone.”

Ms. Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. She earned a PhD in government from Harvard University, and served as assistant to President Lyndon Johnson in his last year in the White House.

Advance registration to attend the presentation is required. Register online at www.rider.edu/dkg or call (609) 896-5001. It is the first of many events planned to honor Rider’s sesquicentennial. The year-long celebration will begin in September, and will commemorate the past, celebrate the present, and look forward to the future. More information can be found at www.rider.edu/150.