Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Written by Drew Gilpin Faust

Narrated by Drew Gilpin Faust

Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, this coming-of-age memoir captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction as played out in the life of one young Virginian.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Aug 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9781666643589

Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. A former dean and university president, she is the author of several books, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize. She and her husband live in Massachusetts.

Reviews for Necessary Trouble

[Leslie Abramson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very well written and narrated by the author
Anyone who grew up in the 1960s would enjoy reimagining that era