LEADER 00000nim 22004215a 4500 001 MWT11512715 003 MWT 005 20160104131204.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160103s1997 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 9780743566568|q(sound recording)|q(hoopla Audio Book) 020 0743566564|q(sound recording)|q(hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 MWT11512715 037 11512715|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|beng|cCtWisc 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Goodwin, Doris Kearns. 245 10 Wait till next year /|cDoris Kearns Goodwin. 250 Abridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bSimon & Schuster Audio :|bMade available through hoopla,|c1997. 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.)) :|bdigital 336 unspecified|bzzz|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 500 GMD: electronic resource. 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by the author. 520 Wait Till Next Yearis 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 on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers. This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Baseball fans|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 Historians|zUnited States|vBiography. 700 1 Shokoff, Jim. 730 0 hoopla (Digital media service) 914 MWT11512715