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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

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By 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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 1997
ISBN9780743566568
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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris 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 last book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The story of a young girl's love of baseball, by a master storyteller.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I read this when I was 13-14. I loved it then.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A nice book about ‘simpler’ times. A touching, uncomplicated memoir.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent memoir of a father-daughter duo who love the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Doris Kearns Goodwin was born a couple years before I was and so her memoir of growing up in the 1950s brought much nostalgia to my mind. Her neighborhood in Brooklyn was both very different, and a bit the same, as my neighborhood in Seattle. My family moved away and I lost this idyllic neighborhood when I was very young; DKG did not move from hers until high school so she has many good stories to tell. Central to her story was her, and her father's, indeed her whole family's, devotion to the Brooklyn Dodgers during the golden years of baseball. Even I, in far away Seattle, knew the names of the wonderful baseball teams and stars. It was a great time to be a kid and she does a superior job of evoking the magic of summer evenings, playing all day long with the neighborhood gang, enjoying long and deep friendships, and going to the beach; all this before TV took our family homes and closed the doors to the outside.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    love this . reminded me of my young youth growing up with the Red Sox and enjoying the games with my grandfather and growing up in Mass.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, this is Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family ad baseball. 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. Goodwin is a great writer - I enjoyed reading about the 1950s - but I got a little tired of all the baseball stories.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a memoir of historian Doris Kearns' childhood in Brooklyn and her overwhelming love for the Brooklyn Dodgers. As anyone who has read some of her of her other books knows, she can write and this one is no different. It flows; it draws you back into the 1950s when baseball was the national pastime and television did not yet rule the land.It is, however, a bit of a paean to that era, leaning heavily on the nostalgia button. It would be wrong to say that it was viewing things through rose-colored lenses but there's no question where the emphasis lay: communities were closer; the neighborhoods were safe; the economy was doing well; free agency hadn't ruined the concept of team loyalty. If you're looking for something deep and incisive like Team of Rivals, this isn't the right place. If I had to choose a single word, I think it would be: pleasant.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A gift from my husband. Wonderfully readable and engaging.