Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374601801
• ISBN13: 9780374601805
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"