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Summary: A touchingly detailed love of Americana, baseball, and life.
Review: This book brought me to a place I have never been, but havealways admired in the few generations that preceed me. Having lost my parents at a young age, Ms. Kearns-Goodwin recount of her own childhood in NY in the company of wonderment and baseball made me long for a parent to sit by, who would continue to tell me tales of the 40's and 50's, so that I could re-live what it was like to be an American then. I picked this book up at an airport bookstore, and never put it down until it was over, which was, in my opinion, much too soon. Thank you, Ms. Kearns- Goodwin, for writing about your life. Perhaps I could relate because my mother grew up in NYC under similar circumstances, or because I spent a great deal of my life attending grad school near Ms. Kearns-Goodwin's hometown of Rockville Center, but regardless of why I liked it these memoirs will remain in my library for years to come, and will, no doubt, be bringing tears to my eyes with each subseqent reading. I only hope my own children can appreciate it someday, as a substitute for the stories their own grandmother might have told them, about baseball, childhood, love of family and loss.
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Summary: A touchingly detailed love of Americana, baseball, and life.
Review: This book brought me to a place I have never been, but have always admired in the few generations that preceed me. Having lost my parents at a young age, Ms. Kearns-Goodwin recount of her own childhood in NY in the company of wonderment and baseball made me long for a parent to sit by, who would continue to tell me tales of the 40's and 50's, so that I could re-live what it was like to be an American then. I picked this book up at an airport bookstore, and never put it down until it was over, which was, in my opinion, much too soon. Thank you, Ms. Kearns- Goodwin, for writing about your life. Perhaps I could relate because my mother grew up in NYC under similar circumstances, or because I spent a great deal of my life attending grad school near Ms. Kearns-Goodwin's hometown of Rockville Center, but regardless of why I liked it these memoirs will remain in my library for years to come, and will, no doubt, be bringing tears to my eyes with each subseqent reading. I only hope my own children can appreciate it someday, as a substitute for the stories their own grandmother might have told them, about baseball, childhood, love of family and loss.
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Summary: A story of those sweeter and simpler days.
Review: I found this book difficult to put down. Doris tells herstory with great humor and also with great love and tears. When she speaks of her love of baseball and of sharing this love with her Father, I can only think of growing up the same way with my own Dad. I am already sharing this same love with my own daughter. I would encourage anyone to read this charming story. Oh but for those simpler, sweeter days.
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Summary: A story of those sweeter and simpler days.
Review: I found this book difficult to put down. Doris tells her story with great humor and also with great love and tears. When she speaks of her love of baseball and of sharing this love with her Father, I can only think of growing up the same way with my own Dad. I am already sharing this same love with my own daughter. I would encourage anyone to read this charming story. Oh but for those simpler, sweeter days.
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Summary: The best memoir I have ever read!!!
Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Wait Till Next Year" is awonderful book that everyone will enjoy for many different reasons. First of all, this is not a tell-all memoir, it is simply th e story of a young Long Island girl growing up in the 1950's as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Second, Ms. Goodwin is such a beautiful writer one could read this book in one sitting. This book is not about how salacious her life was growing up, it is simply a beautiful tale of growing up and witnessing many important events of the 1950's, such as McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, and, of course, the Brooklyn Dodgers moving west. Ms. Goodwin does as brilliant a job of telling her own story, as she has down with Lyndon Johnson and the Roosevelts. This is definitely a must-read!
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Summary: The best memoir I have ever read!!!
Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Wait Till Next Year" is a wonderful book that everyone will enjoy for many different reasons. First of all, this is not a tell-all memoir, it is simply the story of a young Long Island girl growing up in the 1950's as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Second, Ms. Goodwin is such a beautiful writer one could read this book in one sitting. This book is not about how salacious her life was growing up, it is simply a beautiful tale of growing up and witnessing many important events of the 1950's, such as McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, and, of course, the Brooklyn Dodgers moving west. Ms. Goodwin does as brilliant a job of telling her own story, as she has down with Lyndon Johnson and the Roosevelts. This is definitely a must-read!
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Summary: Who says you can't go back again?
Review: Within the pages of Doris Goodwin's affectionate, poignant, and nostalgic memoir of growing up in the 50's, the notion that "you can never go back again" is proved false. Though I'm 6 years younger than the author, and was a childhood resident of the West Coast rather than the East, her memories transported me back to a time when life was as carefree and golden as it would ever be. If only we'd known. Her Fantasy Theater was my Bay Theater, her St. Agnes my Corpus Christi, her Bryn Mawr Meat Market my Slutzky's, her Dugan's Bakery man my Helm's truck, and her Dodger heroes Robinson, Campanella, Snyder, Hodges, Reese and Roe my Koufax, Drysdale, Howard, Wills, Fairly and Davis. Forty years have since past, and life has been , and is, very good. However, the Bay Theater is closed, Big D is dead, the Helm's Building is a shopping mall, and Corpus Christi has lost its relevance. I'm weary of the media's assault on my senses with endless accounts of drive-by shootings, excesses of political correctness, presidential peccadilloes, OJ and his ilk, and the deeds of strident, ofttimes violent, true believers of every sort. Thank you, Doris, for taking me "home" again.
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Summary: A touching memoir
Review: If you have fond memories of listening to the game on theradio with Dad or cried at the end of "Field of Dreams", this book is for you.
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Summary: A touching memoir
Review: If you have fond memories of listening to the game on the radio with Dad or cried at the end of "Field of Dreams", this book is for you.
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Summary: This was an enjoyable book to read.
Review: I liked this book very much as I did No Ordinary Time, thoughI am surprised when I read this author's work that the same charm and humor that she displays in person and on television do not come through in her writing. However, the content of her narrative far transcends this slight criticism. As a lover of baseball her descriptions of her and her father's enthusiasm for the Dodgers were very appealing to me as were her detailing the historical events of the early decades of her life. The description of her families successes as well as travails provoked a great deal of sentiment, but were very genuinely and honestly protrayed.
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