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The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

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Availability:In StockContributor:Judith NiesSeries:P.S.Publish date:2009-06-02Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061176029ISBN-10:61176028UPC:9780061176029Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Women, Social ActivistsSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC41PZ5YPT

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington--Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department economist. But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith's name on the front, Nies soon realized that her life was about to take a radical turn. Shocked to find herself the focus of an FBI investigation into her political activities, Nies began to reevaluate her role as grateful employee and dutiful wife.

A heartfelt memoir and a piercing social commentary, The Girl I Left Behind offers a fresh, candid look at the 1960s. Recounting Nies's courageous journey toward independence and equality, it evaluates the consequences of the feminist movement on the same women who made it happen--and on the daughters born in their wake.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061176029ISBN-10:61176028UPC:9780061176029Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Women, Social ActivistsSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC41PZ5YPT
Nies, Judith: -

Judith Nies has worked as a journalist, teacher, historian, researcher, and corporate speechwriter. The author of three books, including the classic biography Nine Women, she teaches a course on memoir as history and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Judith Nies

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