Doris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author, will speak about “Leadership Lessons from American Presidents” at the 10th
annual Westmont President’s Breakfast on Friday, March 6, from 7-9 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom of Fess Parker’s DoubleTree
Resort. Tickets cost $125 per person and go on sale Friday, Feb. 6, at 9 a.m. on the Westmont website. Seating is limited, and tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Goodwin has written six critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling books,
including her most recent, “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft,
and the Golden Age of Journalism.” The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the tumultuous
first decade of the Progressive era. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired
the film rights to the book. Spielberg and Goodwin worked together on Lincoln, based
in part on Goodwin’s award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln, which illuminates Lincoln’s political genius.
Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II,” and she has written best-sellers “Wait
Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream” and “The Fitzgeralds and the
Kennedys,” adapted into an award-winning, five-part TV miniseries.
The Westmont Foundation and local businesses sponsor the President’s Breakfast to
promote discussion of significant issues in the community. This year’s lead sponsor
is Union Bank. Gold sponsors include Axia Holdings, Chronicle Family Offices, Davies,
Hub International, La Arcada, Carl and Jo Lindros, Lindsay and Laurie Parton, Matt
Construction, Santa Barbara Capital and V3 Corporation. For sponsorship opportunities,
please contact Steve Baker, Westmont associate vice president for advancement, at
(805) 565-7156.
Past Westmont President’s Breakfast speakers include: Muhammad Yunus, microcredit
pioneer; retired Gen. Colin Powell; Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state; Robert
Gates, former secretary of defense, Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute
and former chairman and CEO of CNN; Thomas Friedman, author of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”
and “The World is Flat”; and American historian and bestselling author David McCullough,
who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Mosher Foundation’s series on Moral and Ethical Leadership in the American Presidency continues with Ron White, author of eight books including “A. Lincoln: A Biography,”
at Westmont on May 26.