Labor Day: 100 Years of Unions; Doris Kearns Goodwin; Getting Past Perfectionism

For this Labor Day:

• Continuing our centennial series, Joseph McCartin, professor of history and executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University and the author of several books and co-author with Melvyn Dubofsky of Labor in America: A History (Wiley-Blackwell, 9th edition, 2017), traces the last hundred years of unionization and de-unionization in the U.S.
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, author of many books, including Team of Rivals and her latest, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Simon & Schuster, 2024), writes about the life and times she shared with her late husband, Dick Goodwin, a speechwriter and advisor to JFK, RFK, and LBJ.
• Building on examples from Atlantic columnist Arthur C. Brooks, listeners share what helped them move past fear of failing.

These interviews were polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here:

Doris Kearns Goodwin's Personal Take on History (Apr 15, 2024)

Your Stories of Getting Past Perfectionism (Mar 14, 2024)