Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Written by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year 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.
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.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian and author. She has written six critically acclaimed, New York Times–bestselling books, the most recent of which is The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the book. Goodwin previously worked with Spielberg on the film Lincoln, based in part on her award-winning Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, for which Daniel Day-Lewis received an Academy Award for his portrayal of Lincoln. Goodwin earned the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. She also authored Wait Till Next Year, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, which was adapted into an award-winning TV miniseries. She is well known for her commentary and interviews on television and in documentaries, including Ken Burns’s Baseball and The Civil War. Goodwin served as an aide to President Lyndon Johnson in his last year in office and later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The story of a young girl's love of baseball, by a master storyteller.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this when I was 13-14. I loved it then.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A nice book about ‘simpler’ times. A touching, uncomplicated memoir.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent memoir of a father-daughter duo who love the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doris Kearns Goodwin was born a couple years before I was and so her memoir of growing up in the 1950s brought much nostalgia to my mind. Her neighborhood in Brooklyn was both very different, and a bit the same, as my neighborhood in Seattle. My family moved away and I lost this idyllic neighborhood when I was very young; DKG did not move from hers until high school so she has many good stories to tell. Central to her story was her, and her father's, indeed her whole family's, devotion to the Brooklyn Dodgers during the golden years of baseball. Even I, in far away Seattle, knew the names of the wonderful baseball teams and stars. It was a great time to be a kid and she does a superior job of evoking the magic of summer evenings, playing all day long with the neighborhood gang, enjoying long and deep friendships, and going to the beach; all this before TV took our family homes and closed the doors to the outside.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5love this . reminded me of my young youth growing up with the Red Sox and enjoying the games with my grandfather and growing up in Mass.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, this is Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family ad 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. Goodwin is a great writer - I enjoyed reading about the 1950s - but I got a little tired of all the baseball stories.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a memoir of historian Doris Kearns' childhood in Brooklyn and her overwhelming love for the Brooklyn Dodgers. As anyone who has read some of her of her other books knows, she can write and this one is no different. It flows; it draws you back into the 1950s when baseball was the national pastime and television did not yet rule the land.It is, however, a bit of a paean to that era, leaning heavily on the nostalgia button. It would be wrong to say that it was viewing things through rose-colored lenses but there's no question where the emphasis lay: communities were closer; the neighborhoods were safe; the economy was doing well; free agency hadn't ruined the concept of team loyalty. If you're looking for something deep and incisive like Team of Rivals, this isn't the right place. If I had to choose a single word, I think it would be: pleasant.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A gift from my husband. Wonderfully readable and engaging.