Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Faust, Drew Gilpin

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in...
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Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
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Language: English
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Faust, Drew Gilpin

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Dhs. 111.22

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Dhs. 111.22
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Format: Paperback
Language: English

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.

To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions--not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans' lives.

A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own--one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in.

Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman's life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today.

Includes black-and-white images

Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250338211

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