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

by Lawrence Wright

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345802950
• ISBN13: 9780345802958
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating

I picked up this book on a whim and found it engrossing from the first page. Since I was born after the baby boomers, It explained alot of things that I had always wanted to learn more about. Certain cultural references made about those times have been cleared up for me. I didn't give it five stars because it is a little wordy, but it is a great commentary on our culture. Read this book if you are a history buff.

This was a good book.

Although I had to read this book for school, I found it to be suprisingly good. I would reccomend this book.