{"product_id":"wait-till-next-year-a-memoir-9780684847955","title":"Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTeam of Rivals \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWait Till Next Year\u003c\/i\u003e is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eWait Till Next Year\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoris Kearns Goodwin's work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was \u003ci\u003eLyndon Johnson and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. \u003c\/i\u003eShe earned the Lincoln Prize for \u003ci\u003eTeam of Rivals\u003c\/i\u003e, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg's film \u003ci\u003eLincoln\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Carnegie Medal for \u003ci\u003eThe Bully Pulpit\u003c\/i\u003e, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling \u003ci\u003eLeadership: In Turbulent Times \u003c\/i\u003ewas the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eAn Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s\u003c\/i\u003e, provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people--JFK, LBJ, RFK and MLK--and events of this momentous decade.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598912852242,"sku":"9780684847955","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa5c1df4-91c1-4d73-9232-e6987b122fec.jpg?v=1732193691","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wait-till-next-year-a-memoir-9780684847955","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}