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An eccentric cast of characters populates the autobiography of a young girl who roots for the Brooklyn Dodgers with her father, while her mother suffers from a debilitating illness

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Main Author:	Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1998, c1997.
Subjects:	Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) > History. Goodwin, Doris Kearns > Childhood and youth. Baseball fans > United States > Biography. Historians > United States > Biography. Biographies.
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Summary:	An eccentric cast of characters populates the autobiography of a young girl who roots for the Brooklyn Dodgers with her father, while her mother suffers from a debilitating illness
Item Description:	Reprint. Originally published: 1997.
Physical Description:	261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780684847955 0684847957
Author Notes:	Doris Kearns Goodwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 1943. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1968. She taught at Harvard University and worked as an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson during his last year in the White House. She has written numerous books including The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Wait Till Next Year, and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and Leadership: In Turbulent Times. She has received numerous awards including Pulitzer Prize in history, the Harold Washington Literary Award, the Ambassador Book Award for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, and the Lincoln Prize and the Book Prize for American History for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. (Bowker Author Biography)