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Summary: Loved it!!!!
Review: I loved the simple message that this book gave: If At first you don't suceed, try try again. I flew through the pages very quickly, and couldn't put it downMelody
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Summary: Nostalgic mix of personal remembrances with U.S. history
Review: If you're a child of the 1940s or 1950s and grew up in urbanAmerica, this book really hits home. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes this so tenderly that you really care about her family, her neighbors and the baseball team -- the Brooklyn Dodgers -- who shaped her early life. It's a reminder of a much simpler time set against a backdrop of events that would change the course of America. It's maudlin at times, but if you can get over some passages of extreme detail, you'll find nuggets of gold.
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Summary: Nostalgic mix of personal remembrances with U.S. history
Review: If you're a child of the 1940s or 1950s and grew up in urban America, this book really hits home. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes this so tenderly that you really care about her family, her neighbors and the baseball team -- the Brooklyn Dodgers -- who shaped her early life. It's a reminder of a much simpler time set against a backdrop of events that would change the course of America. It's maudlin at times, but if you can get over some passages of extreme detail, you'll find nuggets of gold.
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Summary: Simply a beautiful book
Review: I don't know of any other way to describe it if not to say itis a beautiful memoir and when I finished it, I wanted to read it again from the very begining. This is not only a wonderful book for people who can remember the old Dodgers and life in the '50s, but even for people who weren't born yet (like myself) who love a well told story and who are interested in cultural history. The way that she paralels the fate of the Dodgers to the course of life makes the book bittersweet and lovely.
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Summary: Simply a beautiful book
Review: I don't know of any other way to describe it if not to say it is a beautiful memoir and when I finished it, I wanted to read it again from the very begining. This is not only a wonderful book for people who can remember the old Dodgers and life in the '50s, but even for people who weren't born yet (like myself) who love a well told story and who are interested in cultural history. The way that she paralels the fate of the Dodgers to the course of life makes the book bittersweet and lovely.
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Summary: Thanks for memories !
Review: A must read for any baseball fan. I grew up in the 40' and50's and this book is a must read for those who would like to remember the way it was. Great book. . . keep up the good work.
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Summary: Thanks for memories !
Review: A must read for any baseball fan. I grew up in the 40' and 50's and this book is a must read for those who would like to remember the way it was. Great book. . . keep up the good work.
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Summary: A treasure in the best tradition of American memoir
Review: I think that Doris Kearns Goodwin exemplifies what is bestabout careful and thoughtful scholarship, a somewhat dying sentiment, I fear, in American culture today. Her memoir evokes a mood and a time not always perfect but more often civil than not. People long for the days when a family could go to a ballpark and not have to take out a second mortgage on their home to afford the tickets, a nostalgia captured perfectly in her writing. As a historian, she is meticulous. I use her work about the Roosevelts and the Japanese internment every semester when I teach the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. What a role model for young men and women trying to understand the nature of good scholarship.
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Summary: A treasure in the best tradition of American memoir
Review: I think that Doris Kearns Goodwin exemplifies what is best about careful and thoughtful scholarship, a somewhat dying sentiment, I fear, in American culture today. Her memoir evokes a mood and a time not always perfect but more often civil than not. People long for the days when a family could go to a ballpark and not have to take out a second mortgage on their home to afford the tickets, a nostalgia captured perfectly in her writing. As a historian, she is meticulous. I use her work about the Roosevelts and the Japanese internment every semester when I teach the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. What a role model for young men and women trying to understand the nature of good scholarship.
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Summary: A wonderful book by a great storyteller.
Review: This book captures the fifties! If you're a boomer and youwant your children to understand American life before bytes and the Beatles, give them this book. It's about much more than baseball.
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