Necessary Trouble Growing Up at Midcentury
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...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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United states of America
Farrar, Straus
2023
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Summary: | 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. "Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America" |
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Physical Description: | 304 pages illustrations 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780374601805 0374601801 |