Free Download Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2ZWK8TX | 2023 | 10 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrator: Drew Gilpin Faust
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. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing.
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