The good fight : a novel

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Label

The good fight : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Danielle Steel

Creator

• Steel, Danielle,
• trueSteel, Danielle

Author

• Steel, Danielle,

Subject

• trueCivil rights workers
• trueDebutantes
• Domestic fiction
• trueFamilies
• Families -- Fiction
• Large type books
• trueLawyers
• trueMainstream fiction
• Nineteen sixties -- Fiction
• trueSocialites
• United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• trueWomen -- Political activity
• trueWomen lawyers
• trueSocial justice
• true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
• trueCivil Rights Movement

Genre

• Large type books
• trueMainstream fiction
• Fiction
• trueDomestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections. She rebels against her parents' expectations for her debutante ball and other conventions. She forges a lifelong friendship with a young German Jewish woman whose family died in the concentration camps. And while her grandfather rises to the Supreme Court, Meredith enlists in the most pressing causes of her time, fighting for civil rights and an end to the Vietnam War. From the bright morning of JFK's inauguration, through the tumultuous years that follow as America hurtles toward the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Meredith joins the vanguard of a new generation of women, breaking boundaries socially, politically, and professionally. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss and rethink their own values and traditions in light of the times. Encompassing the remarkable people Meredith meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it. Beautifully told, brimming with unforgettable moments and characters, The Good Fight is an inspiring, uplifting novel with resonance for our own time."--

Theme

• trueGo your own way

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

ETC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3569.T33828

LC item number

G64 2018b

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult