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Growing Up | Russell Baker
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Russell Baker won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for this biography/autobiography about growing up in the backwoods of Virginia, in a New Jersey Commuter town, and in the Depression-shadowed urban landscape of Baltimore, all happening between the world wars. Baker introduces us to the people that impacted his early life, and he also discusses powerful love, awkward sex, and courage in the face of adversity. The Great Depression provided the backdrop against success, and to help his mother and family through it, he delivered papers and hustled subscriptions of The Saturday Evening Post, which introduced him to bullies, mentors, and heroes who faced national disaster with hard work and good cheer.
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My second reading, though decades have separated the time I last picked up this book. In these chaotic times it was somehow comforting to read about my father‘s generation, raised during the Great Depression. That time was no less chaotic and uncertain, but the ties of family kept the world a smaller place where things could be tackled together. We could all learn by talking, in person, more and TikToking less.

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A funny, touching depression-era memoir, and a tribute to the author's strong, determined mother.

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