Author : Lowell Peter Beveridge (Jr)
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1936107341
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)
Book Synopsis Domestic Diversity by : Lowell Peter Beveridge (Jr)
Download or read book Domestic Diversity written by Lowell Peter Beveridge (Jr) and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Lowell Beveridge comes from an extended family of politically conservative, Ivy League educated teachers who summer at their ancestral home on the coast of Maine. In 1954, fresh out of Harvard, an athlete and a historian, and now a conscripted private in the US Army, Beveridge takes a bold step: He marries an African American woman from Harlem. It is the height of McCarthyism and he is already on the government's radar as a suspected Communist. "Domestic Diversiy" is a revelation, a personal and family saga at the very center of what became a crucial and convulsive stage in the political and cultural development of the United States. Told simply, with clarity and grace, it's a moving story of a search for love and peace, of a family torn apart, and a country in the throes of change.