![]() ![]() In lovely, haunting prose, he has told a story that is deeply in the American grain. "Baker has accomplished the memoirists's task: to find shape and meaning in his own life, and to make it interesting and pertinent to the reader. As is often the case, early hardships made the man. August 14, 1925) is an American newspaper columnist, humorist, political satirist, and author. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and we know her regimen worked for Russell. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. After all, she had three children to raise. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. When Baker was only five, his father died. In this heartfelt memoir by the Masterpiece Theatre host, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and groundbreaking New York Times columnist, Russell Baker traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. " Baker is] a precious national resource."-Neil Postman, bestselling author of Conscientious Objections and Amusing Ourselves to Death WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY ![]()
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