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Moynahan said the decision to shift to The Crimson was supported by the IOP's Senior Advisory Committee, which includes John F. Kennedy Jr., Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) and renowned historian and Harvard Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin...
Essentially, her book is a historical account of the '50s, with an honest recognition of the author's perspective. The '50s, were innocent, but perhaps only because people like Goodwin--who have now come of age as the storytellers of the '50s--were innocent at the time...
Going back to Rockville Centre prompted Goodwin herself to remember the most important details--a method of recollection she was not unfamiliar with: "When I was working with Lyndon Johnson on his memoirs, he lived in a house one mile away from the house he grew up in," she said. "We'd often walk the mile to that house, and the physical impact of being there really affected the memoir...Physical immediacy becomes so important...
...Goodwin explains in the book's introduction that she originally intended Wait Till Next Year to be the coming-of-age story of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan--a follow-up to her role in Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. Discovering her love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her childhood as a whole, she realized that the story would have to take on a larger dimension. She set about the project, then, as any diligent historian would, collecting documents and photographing and contacting nearly everyone who lived in her neighborhood when she was a child. "My intention to write...
...Goodwin says she was surprised at the difference between her usual historical research and the kind of personal research she did for this memoir. "I didn't suspect the emotional impact of the book...Since my parents died while I was so young, I really had no home in Rockville Centre; I did not have a place to go until the book...