The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
By Judith Nies
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At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department economist. But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith's name on the front, Nies soon realized that her life was about to take a radical turn. Shocked to find herself the focus of an FBI investigation into her political activities, Nies began to reevaluate her role as grateful employee and dutiful wife.
A heartfelt memoir and a piercing social commentary, The Girl I Left Behind offers a fresh, candid look at the 1960s. Recounting Nies's courageous journey toward independence and equality, it evaluates the consequences of the feminist movement on the same women who made it happen—and on the daughters born in their wake.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The reference to the FBI file in the description intrigued me enough for me to search C-span for the author's book presentation and then found a longer interview on YouTube. Judith Nies has masterfully incorporated her experience in education, travel, and positions of employment with history of other women finding roles other than "just a housewife." It sure helps put my experiences trying to find any job after getting my degree in geology in 1974--months to even be hired as a receptionist for an office filled with geologists with 20-30 years experience but that was the start. I strongly recommend the book for younger people because I can see how much has changed in 40+ years. I will be using the book as a reference for the bibliography and perhaps read portions again.