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Growing up

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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. It is a story of adversity and courage, of family bonds and family tensions. We meet the people who influenced Baker's early life, and the everyday heroes and heroines of the Depression who faced disaster with good cheer and usually muddled through.

Growing up

  • Baker, Russell
Pulitzer prize-winning writer Russell Bakershares his memories of growing up between the two world wars, telling of his life in Virginia, New Jersey, and Baltimore, and discussing his loving mother and family, teachers, schoolmates, and how they all survived the Depression years.

Oliver Twist

  • Baker, Russell
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

Inventing the truth

the art and craft of memoir
  • Baker, Russell
1995

Inventing the truth

the art and craft of memoir
  • Baker, Russell
1987
Six authors discuss the problems and pleasures of reinventing the past.

So this is depravity

and other observations
  • Baker, Russell
1980

The good times

  • Baker, Russell
1989
An autobiography of the author of the classic "Growing Up," describing his twenties and thirties and this nation's years under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

Russell Baker's book of American humor

  • Baker, Russell
1993
A collection of over two hundred years of tall tales, short stories, exerpts from novels, essays, radio plays, oneliners and book reviews, by more than seventy writers and humorists.

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