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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

By Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by: Drew Gilpin Faust
Unabridged — 10 hours, 16 minutes
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By Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by: Drew Gilpin Faust
Unabridged — 10 hours, 16 minutes
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Loads of folks were raving about Drew Gilpin Faust's charming and wise memoir when it first landed in hardover. Now in a perfectly portable paperback, Drew recounts her privilged Southern upbringing, political activism in the Sixties, and more.

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. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For ...