Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood
- ISBN-10
- 0814318851
- ISBN-13
- 9780814318850
- Category
- Historians
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Author
- Bruce Catton
Description
The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century
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