Growing Up ~ by Russell Baker, 1982, memoir, 278 pages
Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression era in Baltimore. We meet the people who influenced his early life: his strong mother, his little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons. He writes about schoolyard bullies, great teachers, and the everyday heroes and heroines of the Depression who faced disaster with good cheer as they tried to muddle through.
Picking up where Growing Up left off, Baker recounts his odyssey from writing police reports in Baltimore to penning news stories about the Queen of England and offering his wisdom on the grownup world.
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