Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wait Till Next Year (1997) is a book for anyone who loves the Brooklyn Dodgers and/or has a keen interest in the life and times of those living in the ‘50s in small-town America. It will speak to countless boomers, as they recall the political and social character of the time, and will add even more for those raised Catholic at that time.
More by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005. [Winner of several prizes, including the Lincoln Prize, offered by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute of Gettysburg College]
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. 1994. [Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History – Biography]
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga. 1987. [subject of a significant plagiarism scandal]
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. 1976.
About Doris Kearns Goodwin
Official Web Site
http://www.doriskearnsgoodwin.com/
Academy of Achievement. [Inducted 1996]
“History, Baseball and the Art of the Narrative,” Voices from The Smithsonian Associates, October 29, 1997.
“Times Topics,” [Archive of articles on Doris Kearns Goodwin], The New York Times
Interviews
Academy of Achievement, June 28, 1996.
Lehrer, Jim, Online NewsHour, October 17, 1997.
The Plagiarism Scandal
Harvard Plagiarism Archive
Noah, Timothy, “Doris Kearns Goodwin, Liar: First She Plagiarized, Then She Claimed It Wasn’t Plagiarism,” Slate Chatterbox, January 22, 2002.
Lewis, Mark, “Plagiarism Controversy: Doris Kearns Goodwin and the Credibility Gap,” Forbes.com, February 27, 2002.
The Crimson Staff, “The Consequence of Plagiarism: Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin Should Step Down for Breach of Academic Honesty,” The Harvard Crimson, March 11, 2002.
Noah, Timothy, “”Historians Rewrite History: The Campaign to Exonerate Doris Goodwin,” Slate Chatterbox, November 13, 2003.
Nobile, Peter. “Three New Books (Doris Kearns Goodwin), HNN (History News Network), February 23, 2002.
Hoffer, Peter. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History. 2004.
“How the Goodwin Story Developed,” HNN (History News Network), October 6, 2005.
Reviews of Wait till Next Year
BrothersJudd.com [Note the Webliography at the bottom of the review page]
Faucett, Tom, “A ‘Must Read’ for Baseball Fans,” CNN.com, July 14, 1998.
Foster, Richard, “Baseball Memories Worth Catching,” Online Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 9, 1997.
Hubert, Ann, “Keeping Score: Doris Kearns Goodwin Fondly Remembers the 1950’s and, Especially, the Brooklyn Dodgers,” The New York Times on the Web, October 26, 1997.
Kirkus Review [from Google Book Search page]
Offenburger, Carla, “What’s Carla Reading?” Offenburger.com
Samantha S., Teen Ink, March, 2001.
Schooler, Larry, “Wait Till Next Year,” The Yale Review of Books, Spring, 1999.
Baseball
When Ken Burns set out to do a history of baseball on film, Doris Goodwin was one of the people he consulted. She was an avid Brooklyn Dodgers fan, and kept close score of every game they played. In fact, she was the first female journalist ever to be in the Red Sox locker room. But it was not at all unusual in her day for girls to be so interested in baseball, although they were expected to grow out of it as they became ladies.
Burns, Ken. Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns. 1994. [DVD—10 CDs]
Fidler, Merrie A. and Jean Cione. The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. 2006.
Honig, Donald. Baseball in the ‘50s: A Decade of Transition: An Illustrated History. 1987.
Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer. 2006.
Oliphant, Thomas. Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers. 2005.
Simon, Scott. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball. 2002.
Small-town America in the 1950s
Life did seem to be more idyllic in the 1950s, a time of innocence for many.
Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. 2006.
Halberstam, David. The Fifties. 1993
Haslam, Marion. Retro Style: The ‘50’s Look for Today’s Home. 2000.
Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone. Girls of a Tender Age: A Memoir. 2005.
Toth, Sue. Blooming: A Small-town Girlhood. 1981.
Web Generation: What Is Your Generation? 1950’s
Political and Social Issues of the 1950s
Despite the apparent innocence, however, the ‘50’s were the time of McCarthy, polio, violent attempts to block racial integration, the Cold War—not so innocent after all. And Goodwin was well aware of all this: even to the point where she worried about the Rosenbergs’ sons after the death of their parents.
Beals, Melba. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High. 1994.
Doctorow, E. L. The Book of Daniel. 1971. [Fiction—would appear to be a biographical novel about the Rosenbergs' son.]
Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. 2003.
Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. 1990.
Good Night, and Good Luck. DVD
Family
Doris’s mother was sickly, but still a visible and important presence in her life, and of course the baseball relationship Goodwin had with her father was priceless to her.
Briggs, Raymond. Ethel & Ernest: A True Story. 1998.
Conlon-McIvor, Maura. FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father’s Code. 2004.
Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Cheaper by the Dozen. 1948.
O’Neill, Molly. Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball. 2006.
Soloway, Edith. The Division Street Princess: A Memoir. 2006.
(Created with the help of the Arnprior Workshop participants.
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