Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Title: Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury Author: Drew Gilpin Faust ISBN: 9780374601805 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA 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 "we