BOOK BREAKS: Drew Gilpin Faust on "Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury"

How did the first woman to become the president of Harvard University acquire her scholarly and political acumen? Against the backdrop of World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and nuclear threats, Drew Gilpin Faust explains how a girl raised not to ask questions became a scholar and leader who questions everything (and finds the answers). This session will be especially fascinating for viewers interested in higher education, its history, and its future.

Drew Gilpin Faust, president emerita of Harvard and an Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor, is the author of six books, including the Bancroft Prize–winning "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War" (1996) and "This Republic of Suffering" (2008), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

The guest host for this session will be Professor Edward L. Ayers. Professor Ayers is an award-winning historian who has served as the president of the University of Richmond and the president of the Organization of American Historians.

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This interview was recorded on October 8, 2023.

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