Wait Till Next Year, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wait Till Next Year, Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrator: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Abridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/1997


Synopsis

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.

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.

About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK, and MLK—and events of this momentous decade.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on April 11, 2021

Who would have thought that keeping score of Brooklyn Dodger baseball games in her red scorebook would lead to a career as a leading American historian? That's what Doris Kearns Goodwin did as she recants her childhood and teen years in this engaging memoir. The author intersperses her joy and hearta......more

Goodreads review by Karen on October 30, 2024

Nostalgic. Tender. Humorous. Kind-hearted reflection on family and suburban living, current events and social issues during the time that Goodwin was growing up from the late 40s-60s. This is Goodwin’s memoir. For anyone who has ever read her presidential biographies, readers can appreciate her exci......more

Goodreads review by Jean on November 07, 2018

Goodwin is one of my favorite historians. She is a superb writer and meticulous researcher. This book is her memoir about growing up in the 1950s and her love of baseball. I found her descriptions of growing up on Long Island idealistic. It was safe, simple and a comfortable life. It was the exact o......more