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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

By Drew Gilpin Faust
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By Drew Gilpin Faust
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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.

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 w...

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