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The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love and Madness in an American Family
The Crowd Sounds Happy A Story of Love and Madness in an American Family Author:Nicholas Dawidoff Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, ... more »and the awkwardness of first love.« less