Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN-13: 9780684847955, ISBN-10: 0684847957
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: June 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time, which was a bestseller in hardcover and trade paper. She is also the author of Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin.
Set in the suburbs of New York City, where neighborhoods were divided between Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees fans, this book re-creates the postwar era, when owning a home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of a dream and memories for a lifetime. It is the story of a seemingly more innocent time, yet one that saw the convergence of McCarthyism, A-bomb drills, and racism. Through it all, though, Doris Kearns Goodwin could count on two constants: the Dodgers and her father.
Lively, tender, and....hilarious....[Goodwin's] memoir is uplifting evidence that the American dream still exists -- not so much in the content of the dream as in the tireless, daunting dreaming. -- The Boston Globe