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Doris Kearns Goodwin to Speak at Mental Health Association of Maryland Event in Annapolis
[January 19, 2015]

Doris Kearns Goodwin to Speak at Mental Health Association of Maryland Event in Annapolis


The Mental Health Association of Maryland will launch its Centennial year by hosting world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin as the keynote speaker during the MHAMD Legislative Reception and Briefing on Thursday, Feb. 12 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, 126 West Street. Tickets are available for $70 per person and can be reserved at www.mhamd.org/event.

Goodwin is the author of 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 ournalism (November, 2013). The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the book.



Spielberg and Goodwin previously worked together on Lincoln, based in part on Goodwin's award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius (News - Alert) of Abraham Lincoln, an epic tome that illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, and is the author of the best sellers Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which was adapted into an award-winning five-part TV miniseries.


During the annual reception and briefing, MHAMD will overview key legislative issues impacting mental health and celebrate the champions whose leadership has had a lasting and profound impact on Maryland's behavioral health system and the people it serves. Honorees for 2015 are Sen. Richard Madaleno, Jr., for public policy leadership; Albert Zachik, MD , director of the Office of Child and Adolescent Services at the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration, for his work with children; and Brian Hepburn, MD, director of the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration, for visionary leadership and lasting impact.


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