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In the New World
Lawrence Wright
其他書名
Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2012-11-07
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
History / United States / 20th Century
Social Science / Essays
ISBN
0345802969
9780345802965
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lH074LzXk1AC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Looming Tower
comes an intimate memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. • "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." —
The Philadelphia Inquirer
We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan—we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years.
Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy’s America would come to its shocking end.