Wait Till Next Year : A Memoir (AUDIO CASSETTE)

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Summary: A wonderful book by a great storyteller.
Review: This book captures the fifties! If you're a boomer and you want 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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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin has captured the spirit of growing up ina loving family in a small town where everybody knows their neighbors. Her wit and story telling are charming. Her experiences speak to everyone who has lived through the 50s, a time of innocence and sanity.

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin has captured the spirit of growing up in a loving family in a small town where everybody knows their neighbors. Her wit and story telling are charming. Her experiences speak to everyone who has lived through the 50s, a time of innocence and sanity.

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Summary: Doris Kearns Goodwin hits a homerun
Review: With the Colorado Rockies broadcast blaring on the radio, Iread this book on a perfect summer afternoon and it made me smile. It reminded me of mine and my late father's long-suffering following of the Cleveland Indians. And it touched me that growing up Catholic in the '50s is so universal. Thank you, Doris, for a great summer read! I, too, have a brick in memory of my father at Coors Field.

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Summary: Doris Kearns Goodwin hits a homerun
Review: With the Colorado Rockies broadcast blaring on the radio, I read this book on a perfect summer afternoon and it made me smile. It reminded me of mine and my late father's long-suffering following of the Cleveland Indians. And it touched me that growing up Catholic in the '50s is so universal. Thank you, Doris, for a great summer read! I, too, have a brick in memory of my father at Coors Field.

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Summary: One of the Best Summer Reads
Review: For a person who appreciates literate expression I feel thatyou would truely enjoy "Wait Till Next Year-A Memoir" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.The topic is about a young girls love for the Brooklyn Dogers, her childhood, and her family. But the topic is incedental to the telling of the tale. have read other things by Kearns whose is noted for her historical research, and biographical sketches of the Roosevelts,Kennedy's and Johnson's (as in LBJ).I have found her books on the Roosevelts and K's pretty good reading, but this!! She has outdone herself, and very probably because it was a subject very dear to her. A comprehesive tome for her, only 257 pages down from her usual 450, it is also a very quick read. I ripped through it in three days of spare time. Most of that had to do with the fact the book was difficult to put down. But it is also written with a style that flows with ease from subject to subject. If you are doing a "summer vacation at the lakeside cabin" thing, a perfect book to lounge around the hammock with.

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Summary: One of the Best Summer Reads
Review: For a person who appreciates literate expression I feel that you would truely enjoy "Wait Till Next Year-A Memoir" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.The topic is about a young girls love for the Brooklyn Dogers, her childhood, and her family. But the topic is incedental to the telling of the tale. have read other things by Kearns whose is noted for her historical research, and biographical sketches of the Roosevelts,Kennedy's and Johnson's (as in LBJ).I have found her books on the Roosevelts and K's pretty good reading, but this!! She has outdone herself, and very probably because it was a subject very dear to her. A comprehesive tome for her, only 257 pages down from her usual 450, it is also a very quick read. I ripped through it in three days of spare time. Most of that had to do with the fact the book was difficult to put down. But it is also written with a style that flows with ease from subject to subject. If you are doing a "summer vacation at the lakeside cabin" thing, a perfect book to lounge around the hammock with.

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Summary: A delightful and vivid memoir of a Brooklyn childhood
Review: I must strongly disagree with another customer reviewer whopronounced this book "boring." I thought this memoir was beautifully written and that it vividly evoked the world of the author's Brooklyn neighborhood in the 1950s. It's so rare now to read about a happy childhood. Doris Kearns Goodwin balances the happiness and innocence of the child's view with the wider knowledge of her adult self. It's a lovely book, and one that you might enjoy even if you don't care about baseball or Brooklyn.

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Summary: A delightful and vivid memoir of a Brooklyn childhood
Review: I must strongly disagree with another customer reviewer who pronounced this book "boring." I thought this memoir was beautifully written and that it vividly evoked the world of the author's Brooklyn neighborhood in the 1950s. It's so rare now to read about a happy childhood. Doris Kearns Goodwin balances the happiness and innocence of the child's view with the wider knowledge of her adult self. It's a lovely book, and one that you might enjoy even if you don't care about baseball or Brooklyn.

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Summary: A very rich and rewarding read.
Review: I enjoyed this memoir so much I wrote a personal note ofthanks to the author. Her story of family struggles and triumphs are very moving. The story is a terrific legacy to leave to her children. This is must reading for anyone born in 1943, who lived in the New York metropolitan area in the 1950's and early 60's, and followed baseball particularly the Yankees and Dodgers.