11/22/63 theories, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Oswald acted alone. King met with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson and the author of books about several presidents, and used some of her ideas of worst-case political scenarios that might occur in the absence of Kennedy's assassination. The trade hardcover edition features a dust jacket that is a faux newspaper front page, with the front of the jacket featuring an article recounting the real historical event of Kennedy's assassination, and the back featuring an alternative history article speaking of the event as just a failed assassination "attempt"
Doris Kearns Goodwin of forty-eight times since 1994. Stephen King met with Goodwin while he was writing his novel "11/22/63", due to her being an assistant to Johnson, and King used some of her ideas in the novel on what a worst-case scenario would be like if history had changed. In 2014, Kearns won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for "The Bully Pulpit". It was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (History, 2013) and a "Christian Science Monitor" 15 best nonfiction (2013). In 2016, she appeared as herself in the fifth episode of "". In 2002, "The Weekly