false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899922m/77125.jpg 77125 8 <P>Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, <I>Wait Till Next Year</I> is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and 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.<P>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.<P> 74561 1997 Wait Till Next Year total:692|5:218|4:272|3:162|2:33|1:7| 692 2737 936 145 3 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 11 07:58:09 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 08:14:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Mar 04 19:37:11 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 19:37:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 10:09:36 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 10:18:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 24 08:07:07 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 09:49:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 19:55:36 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 12:46:28 -0800 2009 Wait Till Next Year is a nostalgic memoir flavored with her love of baseball and her family. Goodwin is known to most people as the Pulitzer Prize winning author and expert on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. In this book though she is just the girl next door who grew up idolizing he...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 19:49:03 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 19:55:59 -0700 2009 But that is what this book is supposed to be: a per...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 21:16:16 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 19:04:21 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 24 13:27:42 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 13:32:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 06:31:32 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 16:25:49 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 06:06:49 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 13:45:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Tue Aug 12 09:16:47 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 14:22:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 07:01:37 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 07:12:48 -0700 2007 Her memoir of growing up in the 50's presents a fairly idyllic childhood, though not perfect,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 07:13:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 07:29:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 13:13:49 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 19:01:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 08:07:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 16:23:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Sun Nov 23 13:45:52 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 14:01:30 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 03:43:01 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 03:45:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 21 17:52:37 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 17:59:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 21:10:32 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 21:09:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:01:03 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 06:50:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=77125