![]() ![]() Already the parents to fourteen-year-old Charlotte and nine-year-old Jeanne, the Kearns’ did not expect to be parents again in their mid to late thirties. It was then that I was determined to become a history major and follow in her footsteps.ĭoris Kearns was born on January 4, 1943, a surprise baby to her parents Michael and Helen Kearns of Rockville Centre, New York. This feeling was enhanced when she published Wait Til Next Year in 1997, the year I graduated from high school. In essence, Ms Goodwin was an adult version of myself, and I was determined to be her when I grew up. I shortly discovered that she had at the time written history books on both the Roosevelts and Kennedys and had maintained her love of baseball into adulthood. Missing the season cut short by a strike, I turned to Burns’ film for comfort but was more enamored by a female historian and baseball fan who could clearly hold her own with the men. I first discovered Doris Kearns Goodwin in 1994 when Ken Burns sought a female voice to balance out the men as a narrator for his new documentary Baseball. ![]() ![]() ![]() Did anyone ever discover a book that was written just for them? Wait Til Next by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of the United States’ master historian storytellers, is such a book for me. Women’s History Month 2019 continues with a reread of a personal favorite. ![]()
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