Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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.
Beautifully told, brimming with unforgettable moments and ch.
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.
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. and Bobby Kennedy, Meredith joins the vanguard of a new generation of women, breaking boundaries socially, politically, and professionally.
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 Jr.
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.
She forges a lifelong friendship with a young German Jewish woman whose family died in the concentration camps.
She rebels against her parents\' expectations for her debutante ball and other conventions.
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.
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.
The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith Mc Kenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage.
Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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
