Description
This memoir traces a young man’s coming-of-age against the turbulent backdrop of American life from the 1960s through the 1980s. Moving through the era’s civil rights struggles, political assassinations, the Vietnam War, and sweeping cultural change, it captures how national upheaval reshaped private lives and personal convictions. With a journalist’s eye for detail and a novelist’s sense of narrative, the book blends personal reflection with an incisive portrait of a country in transformation. It is both an intimate story of growing up and a thoughtful chronicle of modern America.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage Books
Published Jan 1, 1989
322 pages
ISBN: 9780394759647
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Details
First Published
1988
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In the New World by Lawrence Wright.