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In the New World

Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

by Lawrence Wright
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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.

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    November 7, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9780345802965

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      • ISBN: 9780345802965
      • File size: 2898 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 1, 1989
      Wright ( City Children ; Country Summer ) reflects on his coming-of-age during the '60s, describing his experiences on the home front of the Vietnam war and on the battlefields of the civil rights movement. ``This is a rewarding memoir with telling details on public figures and dissidents alike,'' commented PW .

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  • English

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