Growing Up

Growing Up

Title: Growing Up
Author: Russell Baker
Release: 2017-11-14
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Preview Intro
1
Growing Up Russell Baker
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.

When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise. These were Depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and we know her regimen worked for Russell. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships made the man.

More from Russell Baker

Russell Baker
Russell Baker, Dave Barry, Art Buchwald, Andrei Codrescu & George Burns