Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs (1984) first introduces Eugene Morris Jerome. Set in Brooklyn in 1937, it tells of a Jewish family and their financial troubles during the Great Depression.
Simon's Broadway Bound (1987) completes his semi-autobiographical trilogy. It centers on Eugene and his older brother as they leave home to become writers for a radio show. Meanwhile, their parents break up, and their family resists their new profession. Eugene comes to realize that life does not contain the happy endings he is able to write into his comedy.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is a compelling biography that provides interesting perspectives and details about the home-front society in the United States during.....
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