Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

ISBN 10: 0684824892 / ISBN 13: 9780684824895

Edité par Simon & Schuster First Edition, 1997

A propos de cet article

Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in History for No Ordinary Time. Here we gain a personal insight into the author growing up in Brooklyn, catholic and a HUGE fan of the Dodgers. Plus provides a look into the Cold War, McCarthyism, and the changing role of women in American society. First Edition with all numbers 1 to 10 present. Both the non clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have around 270 Baseball Team Histories and more than 70 items on the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1766678712528

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster First Edition
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0684824892
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780684824895
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • LA & BROOKLYN DODGERS
  • team history

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Synopsis

Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries.
We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers.
This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties.

À propos de l?auteur

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a professor at Harvard. Her experiences working for Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to her bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals, the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award–winning film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, the New York Times bestselling chronicle of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Visit her at DorisKearnsGoodwin.com or @DorisKGoodwin.