Maggie Gallagher, The Baltimore Sun Lively, tender, and. Peter Delacorte, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review As the tenured radicals attempt to rewrite our nations history, the warm, witty, eloquent personal testimony of someone of Doris Kearns Goodwins stature is well worth reading. Goodwin shifts gracefully between a Childs recollection and an adults overview. 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. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwins 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. 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. Book Synopsis By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwins touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. A fine writers conscious mastery of her difficult craft.-The Boston Globe.

About the Book The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time presents the touching memoir of herself as a young girl, growing up in love with her father and baseball.

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