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Summary: A Gem
Review: Wait Till Next Year is the finest memoir I have ever read. More than that, it is one of the outstanding books of any sort that you're likely to find. To me, this is not a baseball book. Baseball is just the lens through which Goodwin examines issues like family, friendship, community, love, and coming of age. Has anyone ever been better at using small stories to state great truths?
Rating:
Summary: A Celebration of the Ordinary
Review: I concur with the many who gave an outstanding review of thisbook. Those who panned it dismissed it as boring or ordinary. They are missing what is best about this book. As an historian Ms. Goodwin is telling the history of an ordinary childhood -- a childhood many of us can relate to. It is a celebration of being 'ordinary' -- and the fond memories it brings back for so many of us. It is the enthusaism she brings to her story that makes this book so wonderful. My childhood too, on the surface, was 'ordinary' -- but, like the author, it is a story near and dear to my heart. Few of us can relate to the events in a biography of JFK or FDR -- but many of us can relate to these events. It is the way she describes these events that makes this such a wonderful book.
Rating:
Summary: A Celebration of the Ordinary
Review: I concur with the many who gave an outstanding review of this book. Those who panned it dismissed it as boring or ordinary. They are missing what is best about this book. As an historian Ms. Goodwin is telling the history of an ordinary childhood -- a childhood many of us can relate to. It is a celebration of being 'ordinary' -- and the fond memories it brings back for so many of us. It is the enthusaism she brings to her story that makes this book so wonderful. My childhood too, on the surface, was 'ordinary' -- but, like the author, it is a story near and dear to my heart. Few of us can relate to the events in a biography of JFK or FDR -- but many of us can relate to these events. It is the way she describes these events that makes this such a wonderful book.
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Summary: Impressive! This gal knows baseball.
Review: I heard her comments about the Brookly Dodgers baseball and theWorld Series on Good Morning America one morning. And I was hooked.Her description of the game was as good as any sportcaster. I was embarassed that she knew more about baseball than I did. So, I bought the book; I was thoroughly entertained. I have since read her books on LBG and FDR. They are as good. I also heard her commencement address on C-SPAN where she contrasts LBG's life with FDR's. She is an excellent storyteller and is the foremost presidential historian
Rating:
Summary: Impressive! This gal knows baseball.
Review: I heard her comments about the Brookly Dodgers baseball and the World Series on Good Morning America one morning. And I was hooked. Her description of the game was as good as any sportcaster. I was embarassed that she knew more about baseball than I did. So, I bought the book; I was thoroughly entertained. I have since read her books on LBG and FDR. They are as good. I also heard her commencement address on C-SPAN where she contrasts LBG's life with FDR's. She is an excellent storyteller and is the foremost presidential historian
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Summary: error-strewn and avaricious
Review: the author was looking for a quick book with a big advanc
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Summary: A great trip back in time
Review: If you want a book all about the Brooklyn Dodgers, read PeterGolenbock's "Bums" or Roger Kahn's "The Boys of Summer" or "The Era". Doris Goodwin has woven the Dodgers into her memoir in just the right amount. Well-written and evocative of a much different time than the '90s, it's well worth reading.
Rating:
Summary: A great trip back in time
Review: If you want a book all about the Brooklyn Dodgers, read Peter Golenbock's "Bums" or Roger Kahn's "The Boys of Summer" or "The Era". Doris Goodwin has woven the Dodgers into her memoir in just the right amount. Well-written and evocative of a much different time than the '90s, it's well worth reading.
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Summary: A heart-warming memoir for NY baseball lovers
Review: Having grown up in Brooklyn, but being 15 years younger thanMrs. Goodwin, I did not have the pleasure of experiencing the 3-way NY baseball rivalry of the '50s. I only had stories to live on. Mrs. Goodwin's books allowed me to vicariously live through her experiences as an avid baseball fan. The closeness of her family, and of her friends, neighbors, local merchants, seems to epitomize the stereotypical suburban life of the decade. Certainly her mother's ill health was an ever-present cloud shading all circumstances of her life, but I had the feeling, all through the book, that I certainly hoped Mrs. Goodwin has a clear realization of how good her life was, how fortunate and how privileged. Those of us who did not escape Brooklyn, in fact were stuck in public housing (more along the lines of what was depicted in the film "Radiant City") would have given anything for her modest home in Rockville Centre and all its trappings. She has wonderful memories, and I'm glad she elected to share them with the rest of us.
Rating:
Summary: A heart-warming memoir for NY baseball lovers
Review: Having grown up in Brooklyn, but being 15 years younger than Mrs. Goodwin, I did not have the pleasure of experiencing the 3-way NY baseball rivalry of the '50s. I only had stories to live on. Mrs. Goodwin's books allowed me to vicariously live through her experiences as an avid baseball fan. The closeness of her family, and of her friends, neighbors, local merchants, seems to epitomize the stereotypical suburban life of the decade. Certainly her mother's ill health was an ever-present cloud shading all circumstances of her life, but I had the feeling, all through the book, that I certainly hoped Mrs. Goodwin has a clear realization of how good her life was, how fortunate and how privileged. Those of us who did not escape Brooklyn, in fact were stuck in public housing (more along the lines of what was depicted in the film "Radiant City") would have given anything for her modest home in Rockville Centre and all its trappings. She has wonderful memories, and I'm glad she elected to share them with the rest of us.
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