Though a six minute interview on The Colbert Report doesn't often give guests much time to show much depth (or convince me to read their books), historian Doris Kearns Goodwin managed to quickly make herself my hero. Perhaps I'm too easily bought...but she's just so darn likeable. She touches on Palin and women, Obama and black voters, the history of the vice presidental role, and Lincoln's political genius in just a few minutes (all the while holding her own again Colbert's jokes and persistent interruptions, including his offering her Mardi Gras beads). I'm adding her books to my list on Goodreads.
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