Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Written by Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Drew Gilpin Faust
CATHARINE DREW GILPIN FAUST is a historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Oct 29, 2024
What an amazing book. The best I have read in several years and I read a lot.
She is an amazing woman! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Sep 9, 2023
Very well written and narrated by the author
Anyone who grew up in the 1960s would enjoy reimagining that era