Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, reflects on her forty-two-year marriage with Richard Goodwin, who as a young man wrote speeches for JFK and LBJ. In his final years, Dick asked Doris to help him sort through boxes of letters, memorabilia, and drafts he had saved from his time in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Their joint exploration of this archive became a meditation on love, memory, and the idealism of the 1960s. Goodwin combines personal memoir with historical analysis, examining the documents not just as records of the past but as windows into her husband's character and their relationship. She writes about Dick's work on Kennedy's New Frontier, his disillusionment with Vietnam, and his later years as a writer. The book is also about the craft of remembering: how physical objects trigger memory, how couples construct shared narratives, and what it means to review a life as it approaches its end. Goodwin's historical training gives the memoir its structure, but her love for her husband gives it its emotional force. This is a historian's farewell to the man who shared her life.