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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Written by Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, this coming-of-age memoir captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction as played out in the life of one young Virginian.
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very well written and narrated by the author
Anyone who grew up in the 1960s would enjoy reimagining that era