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Wait Til Next Year: A Memoir Audiobook

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Read By: Suzanne Toren Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2011 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781442342552
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Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

76:21 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:01 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

47:39 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

11

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Publisher Description

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She 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.

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"This was the most engaging book. As a female baseball devotee, I was mesmerized by her story of being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan as a child. The current events and story of her childhood woven in made this all the more interesting. Alas, she went on to become a Red Sox fan! "

— Susan (5 out of 5 stars)

Quotes

  • “Lively, tender, and…hilarious…[Goodwin’s] memoir is uplifting evidence that the American dream still existsnot so much in the content of the dream as in the tireless, daunting dreaming.” 

    — Boston Globe

  • “A poignant memoir…marvelous…Goodwin shifts gracefully between a Child’s recollection and an adult’s overview.” 

    — San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

  • “As the tenured radicals attempt to rewrite our nation’s history, the warm, witty, eloquent personal testimony of someone of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s stature is well worth reading.” 

    — Baltimore Sun

  • “Goodwin gives listeners reason to consider what each of us has retained of our childhood passions. A poignant but unsentimental journey for all adults and, of course, especially for baseball fans.” 

    — Library Journal

Awards

  • New York Times bestseller

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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    " Of all Doris Kearns Godwin's books I like this one best. She evokes a time and place similar to what I experienced as a child. The love between members of her family is palpable. Readers can see the historian as she develops. A wonderful book. "

    — Warren, 5/17/2011
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    " This is a delightful memoir of the author's early years on Long Island in the 40's and 50's and her love affair with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Written with great affection for both her neighborhood, her team, and her time, this was quite an enjoyable read. "

    — doug, 4/26/2011
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    " Not much of a fan of sports; But I did enjoy how this book was played out. "

    — Margaret, 4/14/2011
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    " Kick off baseball season with a good baseball read. "

    — Roger, 4/11/2011
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    " Love this book, read it for the second time. Great memoir about baseball/growing up in the 1950's and 60's. "

    — Peter, 3/28/2011
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " One can only imagine have hard it must have been for Brooklyn to lose the Dodgers. Lucky for Ms Goodwin that she was able to adopt the Red Sox. "

    — Scot, 2/17/2011
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    " Doris Kearns Goodwin is a master storyteller as she weaves the triumphs and tragedies of the Brooklyn Dodgers with her own up and downs in her personal life. Nice to see Rockville Center play a major role. "

    — Tommy, 1/14/2011
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " Well written. More than anything it makes me want to be back in a city with major league baseball. "

    — Whitney, 1/1/2011

About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a #1 New York Times bestselling and award–winning author of acclaimed works of nonfiction. Her work for President Johnson launched 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. She won the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit, about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, for which she was executive producer.

About Suzanne Toren

Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. He has performed voice-over work since 1994.