Girl I Left Behind A Narrative History of the Sixties

Name: Girl I Left Behind A Narrative History of the Sixties
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ISBN: 9780061176012

ISBN-10: 006117601X

ISBN-13: 9780061176012

Edition: 2008

Authors: Judith Nies

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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. They lived in the carriage house of the famed Marjorie Merriweather Post estate. 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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Prologue: Remapping the Sixties	p. xi
Expectations
"They Want You to Answer Some Questions"	p. 3
The Most Interesting Job in Washington	p. 14
The Godfather	p. 29
The Honorable Schoolgirl	p. 50
History's Clock	p. 75
The Failure Theory of Success	p. 85
Hidden History
Citizen of the World	p. 119
Honest Work Is Hard to Find	p. 140
The Good Wife and Other Double Binds	p. 164
The Rise of the Bra Burners	p. 188
We Live in a World the Sixties Made
Extraordinary Times	p. 211
The Ghost of Marjorie Merriweather Post	p. 241
Moral Hazard	p. 271
Leave the Gun; Take the Cannoli	p. 287
Epilogue: Conversations with History	p. 305
Acknowledgments	p. 309
Notes	p. 311
Selected Bibliography	p. 339
Index	p. 345
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