![]() She 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. Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. ![]() Yet in the pages giving her childhood perspective on such things as race and the Army-McCarthy hearings, we behold the deep roots of this historian's success in her art. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Doris Kearns Goodwin SIGNED BOOK Wait Till Next Year FIRST EDITION Hardcover at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products. But when Goodwin focuses on herself and her family apart from baseball-her mother was chronically ill and dies in the final pages of the book-she seems content to skim the surface of the story, with emotion held too deeply in check for what ought to have been the book's climax. The baseball games of Goodwin's New York City youth are dramatically and beautifully narrated-it is refreshing to read about a girl's passion for the sport her childhood love of the game and the three teams that played in the city in the 1950s is evident in every paragraph. The word ""recollections"" in the subtitle rather than ""reflections,"" say, is an apt designation of the book's content, which is charming and endearing, though does not allow access into the author's inner life. ![]() This memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (No Ordinary Time) is a moving ode to her father and to their shared love of baseball. ![]()
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