A distinguished historian remembers coming-of-age in the 1950s and ’60s. Faust, a Bancroft and Francis Parkman Prize winner and former president of Harvard, examines her personal history in a memoir set between her 1947 birth and her 1968 graduation from Bryn Mawr. In the early chapters, the author resurrects the Virginia of her White, privileged…
Starred Review, Publisher’s Weekly
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury Drew Gilpin Faust. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-60180-5 Former Harvard president Faust (This Republic of Suffering) nimbly blends the personal and the political in this affecting memoir that covers her life from 1947 (the year she was born) through 1968. Faust, who was raised in Virginia’s…
The Way Out: Publisher’s Weekly Talks with Drew Gilpin Faust
Faust, the former president of Harvard University and the first woman to hold that position, traces her political awakening in her coming-of-age memoir, Necessary Trouble (FSG, Aug). Read the rest of the story in the Publisher’s Weekly website….