Pub Date: June 2, 1992
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 1030
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 18 to UP
Physical Info: 1.10" H x 6.80" L x 4.20" W ( 0.45 lbs) 348 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Editors Journalists Publishers | Memoirs | Family and Relationships | Life Stages | General
Description: This is Russell Baker's story of growing up in America between the world wars--in the backwoods mountains of Virginia, in a New Jersey commuter town, and finally in the Depression-shadowed urban landscape of Baltimore.
Review Quotes: Praise for Growing Up and Russell Baker
"A wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong...[with scenes] as funny and touching as Mark Twain's."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Lovely haunting prose....[Baker] moves beyond the boundaries of his newspaper column to establish a place for this book among the most enduring recollections of American boyhoods--those of Thurber and Mencken, Aldrich and Twain."--The Washington Post Book World "One of the most heart-warming, inspiring, nostalgic, funniest, best-written books I have ever read."--Ann Landers "[Baker is] a precious national resource."--Neil Postman "The saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depression years and World War II that has ever been written."--Harrison Salisbury