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Necessary trouble : growing up at midcentury Cover Image Book

Necessary trouble : growing up at midcentury / Drew Gilpin Faust.

Faust, Drew Gilpin, (author.).

Summary:

"Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374601805
  • ISBN: 0374601801
  • Physical Description: 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-288) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- A death in the family -- A girl isn't the same -- Shooting the dog -- Many feelings about segregation -- Life in the fifties -- Girls who dare: Nancy, Anne, and Scout -- Friday for revolutions, Wednesday for life -- Across frontiers -- Catching up with the revolution -- Class of 1968 -- Instead of happy childhoods -- This is the end -- Free, white, and twenty-one.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries.

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Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield B FAUST (Text) 38955500105755 Adult Biography Available -