Wait Till Next Year (Sports Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00M740MRI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author of biographies of several U.S. DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, and political commentator. Presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); and her most recent book,
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is a coming-of-age memoir in the era of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, when baseball truly was a national pastime that brought whole communities together.With her radio by her side and scorecard to hand, she recreates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. When historian Goodwin was six years old, her father taught her how to keep score for ‘their’ team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, which forged a lifelong bond between father and daughter. Weaved between the games and the seasons, Goodwin tells the story of a changing America – from the lunacy of the Cold War alarm drills to McCarthy and the Rosenburg trials – as well as her own loss of innocence encapsulated by
"Greatauthor made you felt you were there. Brought back good memories from my Catholic backgroundI too was growing up at the" according to Paula. as the author. Also a baseball follower.I knew most of the players wonderful book to read & remember what was going on at that time in history My neighborhood was much like the author.laughed a lot about the size of TV'SAlso like my neighborhoodsuch a sweet storyI have read Team of Rivals which was excellent but this book let me know who Doris Kearns Goodwin is. Ronald W Buchmeier said I've enjoyed all of the Kearns Goodwin books I've read but. This book was not what i expected. I've enjoyed all of the Kearns Goodwin books I've read but I thoroughly enjoyed the story of kids growing up in New York in the 50s and how neighborhoods and life changed. Plenty of baseball thrown in, even though it was about the Dodgers. I highly recommend this book.. Amazon Customer said Not really a "sports classic" - but better.. This is categorized as "Sports Classics", but it really is more a coming of age in the 50s biography that used the Brooklyn Dodgers as the theme. Very good read as you would expect from Goodwin.
About the Author DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, and political commentator. . She is the author of biographies of several U.S. Presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); and her most recent book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln