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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

af Drew Gilpin Faust

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Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. 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.… (mere)

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An intriguing memoir of growing up during a tumultuous time in the 1950's & 60's. The author is a professional historian who grew up in rural Virginia during the post WWII era and the racial unrest of that time. As the only girl in a family with three brothers, she was keenly aware of how people were treated differently and had an strong innate sense of fairness and justice. Because of radio broadcast while riding in the car around age 9, she also became aware of the racial injustice that surrounded her.

Granted the author had the privileges of race, social class, and economic security. But the narrative of her activism demonstrates that she leveraged those advantages to take a stand for her beliefs as a teen and young adult.

I'm slightly younger than the author and remember most of the events in the late 50's and 60's. Reading this book reminded me of the discomfort I felt as a child & youth regarding those news stories. That discomfort remains with me today, because the issues are still unresolved. There is some irony that by participating in history, this young woman then made a life out of history. Relevant quote: "Coming to terms with the past would ultimately become an intellectual and professional commitment as well as a personal necessity. I grew up to be a historian." p. 257. (

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tangledthread | Mar 1, 2024 |

Interesting trip through history, although I grew up a few years behind her and in a different life than she did. I remember the many of the events she was active in and appreciate how her piviledged, southern life could have sent her in a very different direction. Her writing made me rethink those times and remembered how far we've come in our thinking on race and women's issues, but how far we need to go.

EllenH | Jan 15, 2024 |

Drew Gilpin Faust writes about growing up in a privileged Virginia environment in the mid-20th century, and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights Movement, among other causes of the day. Her southern, traditional upbringing came into conflict with her experiences at Concord Academy for high school and Bryn Mawr for college. While just 15, she took the first of 2 trips to Eastern Europe, quite unusual during the Cold War. She also became an activist traveling in the south in the Jim Crow era. The book traces her youth and ends at her graduation from college.

I have mixed feelings about the book. She has an interesting story to tell about mid-century America, but it is a story of privilege that I found hard to relate to. Despite a difficult relationship with her parents, there is never a mention of the funding of her exceptional lifestyle, which helped give her such insight into the larger world. She went to a boarding school, and then could choose pretty much any college she preferred, which in her writing she doesn’t seem to recognize as privileged. I appreciate what she did and learned given her background, but coming from quite a different background myself, it feels like quite an elitist perspective. I tip my hat to her accomplishments, but they seem a little less remarkable given her background. (

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peggybr | Oct 4, 2023 |

Gilpen Faust writes about breaking away from her traditional southern family and coming of age when women were to conform and not push the boundaries. She was definitely a boundary pusher. She was aware of the black people around her, but didn't understand why they didn't go to her school or church. Because of her intellect, she was able to go to boarding school and then Bryn Mawr college where professional women became her role models. (

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mojomomma | Sep 26, 2023 |

My favorite bookstore recommended this read, so I started it without knowing anything about the author; I finally hit Wikipedia in the middle of it and found out she was the first female president of Harvard. The setup is interesting because she grew up very white and privileged in Virginia in the 1950s but was able to become a teenage activist (including participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964) apparently without her parents knowing about it (I actually would love to know how much her father found out later about it all because that’s a story I’d love to hear).

I almost gave up at the beginning because she straight up gives long biographies of her grandparents and parents before finally telling her stories and experiences; I’m not sure exactly what the point was considering it sounds like they had no affect on her determination and work for justice. For me it was most interesting because she was born in 1947 exactly three days after my dad, so it was the first chance I got to see what was happening in the country for him too (especially since he never told his story and passed twenty years ago). She tells a fascinating tale of a very short period which ends as she turns 21 and can vote for the first time, but it’s all of such an important time in our history and worth sharing. (

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Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. 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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