Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. For the most part, though, these things remained submerged. Trouble lay just under the surface, of course: people had to confront racism, McCarthyism and sexism they built bomb shelters and thought about the Cold War. Their children learned to ride their bicycles and played games with the neighbor's kids-even after sunset. In the '50s, nice women like Donna Reed waited for their honest, hard-working husbands in modest homes on safe, tree-lines street. Americans were innocent, in the '50s, we are often told.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |