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9780195024920

The Damned and the Beautiful American Youth in the 1920s

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195024920

  • ISBN10:

    0195024923

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1979-02-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now

Author Biography

Paula Fass is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Introduction: Youth in the 1920'sp. 3
The Plastic Age
The Children of Our Discontentp. 13
The Family Redivivus: 1880-1930p. 53
The World of Youth: The Peer Societyp. 119
Work and Play in the Peer Societyp. 168
Flappers and Philosophers
Competition and Conformity in the Peer Culturep. 225
Sexual Mores in the World of Youthp. 260
Symbols of Liberationp. 291
The Politics of Cultural Liberalismp. 327
Conclusion: Change and Stabilityp. 365
Notesp. 379
Indexp. 489
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