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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Main Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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"
Physical Description:304 pages illustrations 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780374601805
0374601801