![]() ![]() We meet the people who influenced Baker's early life: his strong and loving mother, his bold little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons. His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression-shadowed landscape of Baltimore. "Magical.He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny.a work of original biographical art."- The New York Times ![]() ![]() Description Russell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. ![]()
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