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2 Russell Baker books: Growing Up, memoir 1991 + There's a Country in my Cellar 

2 Russell Baker books: Growing Up, memoir 1991 + There's a Country in my Cellar
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Item location:Alma, AR, United States
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Title: Growing Up
Publication Year: 1991Subject: Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Edition Description: ReissueTopic: Personal Memoirs, Parenting, General, Literary
Language: EnglishAuthor: Russell Baker
ISBN-10: 0451168380Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780451168382Publisher: Signet

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Key Details
Author:Russell Baker
Language:English
Publisher:Signet
Format:Paperback
ISBN-10:0451168380
ISBN-13:9780451168382

Additional Details
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Thickness:1 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recalls his youth in the impoverished mountain region of Virginia, New Jersey suburbia, and Depression-shadowed Baltimore and details his mother's struggle to educate and make something of her family

Industry Reviews
"'Growing Up'...reveals the people, places and events that created both the celebrated columnist and an era since past."
Chicago Tribune Books (07/02/1995)

"This mellow recollection of maturing amid crises reveals the truth of Proust's dictum that any writer's life can be seen as a preparation for his vocation."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Charles Solomon (07/23/1995)

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Here are two Russell Baker books to be delivered right to your front door!

Here are the details:

1) Growing Up, memoir 1991 (details are listed above)

2) There's a Country in my Cellar -- hardback with nice bookjacket.

This book begins where Growing Up and The Good Times leave off, with its triumphant journalist hero achieving one of journalism's ultimate prizes -- a column in the New York Times.

By bringing together more than 10 dozen of these columns, his new book provides both nostalgic and insightful views of what happened to, and in, America during the past quarter century...