His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. "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 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. Russell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. a work of original, biographical art".-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times. It is the story of adversity and courage, of the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. This Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography is Russell Baker's unforgettable story of growing up in America between the world wars.
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