Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

Title: Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin ISBN: 9780684824895 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: 1997 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Number of Pages: 272 Section: Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs Publisher Description: "Wait Till Next Year" is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries. We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early