Faust, Drew Gilpin
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
- ISBN 13:
- 9781250338211
- author:
- Faust, Drew Gilpin
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Picador USA
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 13.7 x 2.5 centimetres (0.4
- Genre:
- Biography, Personal Memoirs, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Necessary Trouble Growing Up at Midcentury is a memoir that recounts coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. The 1950s were marked by polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies, setting the stage for a world of expectations and dissatisfactions. Growing up in this era was particularly challenging for those expected to conform to traditional roles. For Drew Gilpin Faust, accepting these constraints proved intolerable, leading her to forge a path of resistance that would shape her life's work as a historian. Through her love of learning and engagement with the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, she found a way to navigate the rapid changes of the 1960s. This memoir captures a pivotal moment in one young woman's life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that continue to resonate today. The book includes black-and-white images.
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