Description: Necessary Trouble : Growing Up at Midcentury, Paperback by Faust, Drew Gilpin, ISBN 1250338212, ISBN-13 9781250338211, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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
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Book Title: Necessary Trouble : Growing Up at Midcentury
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Personal Memoirs, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback