WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR; A Memoir / Doris Kearns Goodwin
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Photos by author. First Edition, 10th Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on a Lion of Judah Event bookplate on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo, red quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, illustrated with several B&W family photos in-text of the author, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting EBETS FIELD in clouds above a row of frame houses, [1-8], 9 - 261 pages + {3] Photo Credits. Very Fine / Fine. Item #8472
ISBN: 9780684824895
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)--Harvard, Ph.D.-- is a distinguished American biographer, highly respected historian, former sports journalist and political commentator.
One of America's most respected historians and biographers, Doris Goodwin has written biographies and major studies of several U.S. presidents: Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, the Kennedy's, and LBJ.
In this, her memoir, Doris draws upon her girllhood in a suburb of New York, growing up as a dutiful Catholic girl, her love of baseball, with mounting problems affecting her parents, and growing political challenges as exemplified by McCarthyism.
SIGNED & in SUPERIOR OVERALL CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name above bookplate on ffe. No remainder marks.
Price: $35.00