We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is writing a new book, which she describes as a memoir of the 1960s and her life with her husband, Richard Goodwin. But at 80, the famed historian has a whole new life. And it's filled with big names. https://t.co/xTMfJyrTan