![]() ![]() She said, “Our street…was common land – our playground, our park, our community” (Goodwin 55). She had many memories of her school, church, and time spent with her favorite team, the Dodgers, which were all positive. Goodwin has great memories about her neighborhood. Also in her story, she highlights the good and bad things about growing up as a suburban child. The memoire includes many memories of how she and her family were affected during the atomic bomb and McCarthyism. Goodwin talks about multiple members of her family, including her father, Michael, her mother, Helen, her two sisters, Charlotte and Jeanne, and her best friend while growing up, Eileen. Wait Till Next Year, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, is a personal memoire of Goodwin’s life growing up in Rockville Centre, New York during the 1950s. ![]()
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