Girl I Left Behind

<p>At the height of the Vietnam War protests twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington--Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen her husband as a Treasury department economist. But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith's name on the front Nies soon realized that her life was about to take a radical turn. Shocked to find herself the focus of an FBI investigation into her political activities Nies began to reevaluate her role as grateful employee and dutiful wife. </p><p>A heartfelt memoir and a piercing social commentary <em>The Girl I Left Behind</em> offers a fresh candid look at the 1960s. Recounting Nies's courageous journey toward independence and equality it evaluates the consequences of the feminist movement on the same women who made it happen--and on the daughters born in their wake. </p>