In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties by Wright, Lawrence

In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345802958)

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In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties by Wright, Lawrence

In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

$18.00
In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties by Wright, Lawrence

In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Lawrence Wright
ISBN-10: 0345802950
ISBN-13: 9780345802958
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.31w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 02/22/2013 pg. 82
By Lawrence Wright
By Lawrence Wright
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LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the best-selling author of the novel, The End of October, and ten books of nonfiction, including Going Clear, God Save Texas, and The Looming Tower, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.

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