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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684847955)
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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xBy the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN-10: 0684847957
ISBN-13: 9780684847955
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/02/1998
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.44w x 0.75d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/19/1998 pg. 28
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN-10: 0684847957
ISBN-13: 9780684847955
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/02/1998
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.44w x 0.75d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/19/1998 pg. 28
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
xDoris Kearns Goodwin's work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people--JFK, LBJ, RFK and MLK--and events of this momentous decade.
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