An era when the lineups on most teams remained basically intact year after year, allowing fans to extend loyalty and love to their chosen teams. An era that saw one of the three New York teams competing in the World Series every year. The narrative begins in 1949 at the dawn of a glorious era in baseball. The corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries.
The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. When everyone knew everyone else on the block and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. When owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street, meant the realization of dreams. Collectible.Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine - Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White - teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.
The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft - a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history. These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. A dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life. Small wars proliferate far from our shores. The influence of money in politics deepens. Spectacular mergers produce giant companies. Legislative stalemate paralyzes the country. "The gap between rich and poor has never been wider. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A near-fine copy of the first printing, spine rolled at the crown. Signed by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with a personalized inscription. xiv, 910 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations 25 cm.
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