
Necessary Trouble
Growing Up at Midcentury
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Drew Gilpin Faust
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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. Urged to become “well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Faust forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in.
Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today.
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A story of faith, hope and love.
- De Amazon Customer en 09-26-19
De: Chris Norton, y otros
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This Is the Voice
- De: John Colapinto
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, John Colapinto
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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There’s no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them all - the human voice itself. Beginning with the novel - and compelling - argument that our ability to speak is what made us the planet’s dominant species, John Colapinto guides us from the voice’s beginnings in lungfish millions of years ago to its culmination in the talent of Pavoratti, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beyoncé - and each of us, every day.
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Strange choice to become political
- De D & C Kochersberger en 01-27-21
De: John Colapinto
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Janis
- Her Life and Music
- De: Holly George-Warren
- Narrado por: Nina Arianda
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
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Well framed & Amazing Performance
- De Hannah en 04-09-20
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Why Peacocks?
- An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird
- De: Sean Flynn
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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When Sean Flynn’s neighbor in North Carolina texted “Any chance you guys want a peacock? No kidding!” he stared bewilderedly at his phone. He had never considered whether he wanted a peacock. But as an award-winning magazine writer, this kind of mystery intrigued him. So he, his wife, and their two young sons became the owners of not one but three charming yet fickle birds: Carl, Ethel, and Mr. Pickle.
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science and animal lovers
- De Elizabeth Ward en 11-04-21
De: Sean Flynn
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Fieldwork
- A Forager's Memoir
- De: Iliana Regan
- Narrado por: Iliana Regan
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she had long expressed as a chef, but experienced most intensely growing up.
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Loved every bit of this
- De Pamela C. Fogg en 03-06-23
De: Iliana Regan
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- De: Adam Rutherford
- Narrado por: Greg Patmore
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America. With disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century, despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring questions, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the scientific impossibility of its realization.
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- De Roy en 01-11-25
De: Adam Rutherford
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This Republic of Suffering
- Death and the American Civil War
- De: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives - equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God.
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a unique civil war perspective
- De D. Littman en 04-21-08
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- A Personal History
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Francine Prose
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers—and the year when our country changed.
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Droning about unremarkable events
- De Eve Harris en 07-14-24
De: Francine Prose
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All Against All
- The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
- De: Paul Jankowski
- Narrado por: Dean Gallagher
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is about the power of bad ideas - exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went so wrong. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals that it was collective mentalities and popular beliefs that drove this crucial period that sent nations on the path to war, as much as any rational calculus called "national interest".
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Comprehensive history
- De John Cashman en 06-24-20
De: Paul Jankowski
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Forever Home
- How We Turned Our House into a Haven for Abandoned, Abused, and Misunderstood Dogs—and Each Other
- De: Ron Danta, Danny Robertshaw, Larry Lindner
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
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Danny & Ron’s Dog Rescue is an organization like no other. Because an abused or neglected dog can only recover and learn to trust again when it is in a loving home, Danny and Ron decided to open their doors. Danny and Ron treat each neglected, abused, and misunderstood animal like a member of the family; the dogs eat organic food from their own bowls and are even allowed to sleep in the bed.
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So inspiring and relatable
- De MIchelle Howard en 11-10-22
De: Ron Danta, y otros
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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming
- A Memoir
- De: J. M. Thompson
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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Step by step, mile by mile, his body and mind heal. In this lyrical, vulnerable, and breathtaking memoir, J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist, retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the unorthodox treatment that saved him. Running Is a Kind of Dreaming is a luminous literary testament to the universal human capacity to recover from our deepest wounds.
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if I could give 10 stars, I would.
- De "ratatoskr_the_squirrel" en 01-09-23
De: J. M. Thompson
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The Palace
- From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
- De: Mr. Gareth Russell
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball. The Palace takes us on “an entertaining journey into the past” (Kirkus Reviews) as it reveals the ups and downs of royal history and illustrates what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time.
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Gareth Russell is a true talent
- De clandstu en 12-13-23
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Huddle
- How Women Unlock Their Collective Power
- De: Brooke Baldwin
- Narrado por: Brooke Baldwin
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores the phenomenon of “huddling", when women lean on one another to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact meaningful change. Beyond the headline-making huddles of recent years such as the #MeToo movement, the Time's Up initiative, and the 2018 midterm elections, when women won a historic number of seats across the country, Baldwin tells the stories of women of all ages, races, religions and socio-economic backgrounds who are huddling in all segments of society.
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Amazing
- De MOJOMIke en 04-06-21
De: Brooke Baldwin
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- HokiAddict
- 09-13-23
Tremendous and valuable, historical perspective!
Drew Faust was a kind observer and participant in probably the most important social upheaval in our nation’s history. She is a keen observer and excellent reporter on the 1960’s racial history to which I was more of an observer than a participant.
As a highly introspective young woman of the South with a growing awareness of the inequities of black-white racial societal norms, I give her enormous credit for her lifelong determination to help right those wrongs.
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- Em
- 05-02-24
A moving memoir that is also an amazing lesson in the fraught American history of the 1960s
Dr Faust does an incredible job of recounting her truly remarkable youth while weaving the historical relevance right into her story. As a historian of the American South, she is uniquely qualified to explore her own history in the context of the time. I learned so much not only about her own remarkable childhood, youth, and early adulthood but also about the experience of living in the segregated South of the mid-twentieth century as a brilliant, privileged, justice-minded white girl from an upperclass family. It would make an excellent addition to a high school American history course, providing students with the perspective of a young person living through the Civil Rights Era.
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- Susan S. Heiner
- 09-30-23
Inspiring!
I am a 65 year old woman and this history of Drew Gilpin Faust, who is just a few years ahead of me on her journey, inspired, encouraged, and motivated me.
Sometimes we need to learn personal stories of the past to remember how much impact one person can have.
Excellent read! Well done!
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- Jeanne Virgilio
- 10-02-23
First hand memory
As a woman growing up in the 50s, I can relate to all parts of this story. I’m going to read it again at this time and listen for more details. I too got in my share of necessary trouble.
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- Robert B. Lamm
- 10-13-23
Left Me Wanting More (and Less)
A fascinating memoir of a fascinating woman whose commitment to equal rights is mightily impressive. I am Ms. Faust’s contemporary - about the same age, a member of a college class of 1968, etc., but my commitment looks pale in comparison. I just wish she had talked a bit about her life after the 1960s and a bit less about her civil rights struggle; not that it was bad or boring - quite the contrary - but her subsequent life must surely be equally interesting. Perhaps there will be a sequel….
Memoirs are so aptly suited to audiobooks, and I love the fact that Ms. Faust narrated her life. She’s not the best narrator, but I know it rings true.
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- Victoria T. Baker
- 12-23-23
Her upbringing mirrored mine her stepping out of that small sheltered life was courageous .
Drew is the true activist who jumped in and stayed in to slowly help bring about change one small step at a time. Thoroughly enjoyed, brought back so much on how women born in the mid 40’s evolved and changed life for all.
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- Richard
- 08-27-23
Challenging
Thoughtful, informative and challenging. I have a much better understanding of the era I grew up on with the author. More than anything it reminds me of the accountability I have for what I see, hear and experience-- and that what I do about it can make a difference.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-16-23
So much truth in history lived and retold.
My thanks to the author, for the history retold in the truth of the life that she has lived.
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- delilah devereaux
- 03-10-24
struggles and triumphs of mid century women
having grown up about 10 years after the author, so much of her story mirrors what my life was like still, despite the strides made by these courageous people. I felt a sisterhood with the author at every chapter and heard my voice in hers as she narrated her history - herstory.
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- D. Brown
- 10-08-24
Gilpin Faust's early activism showed an empathy that was way beyond her years.
Her understanding of right and wrong is astonishing. Anyone in college in the late 60's can relate.
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