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100	1		_aGoodwin, Doris Kearns
245	1	0	_aWait till next year _b: a memoir _c/ Doris Kearns Goodwin
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, c1997
300			_a261p. us _c; 24 cm.
520			_aThis memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is a moving ode to her father and to their shared love of baseball. The word "recollections" in the subtitle rather than "reflections," say, is an apt designation of the book's content, which is charming and endearing, though does not allow access into the author's inner life. The baseball games of Goodwin's New York City youth are dramatically and beautifully narrated--it is refreshing to read about a girl's passion for the sport; her childhood love of the game and the three teams that played in the city in the 1950s is evident in every paragraph. But when Goodwin focuses on herself and her family apart from baseball, her mother was chronically ill and dies in the final pages of the book, she seems content to skim the surface of the story, with emotion held too deeply in check for what ought to have been the book's climax. Yet in the pages giving her childhood perspective on such things as race and the Army-McCarthy hearings, we behold the deep roots of this historian's success in her art.
650	2		_aBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) _x-History
650		4	_aBaseball fans _z-United States _v--Biography
655		4	_aAutobiography _x-Women authors
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