The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s / Edition 1

by Paula S. Fass

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195024920
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1979
Series:	Galaxy Books
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	8.48(w) x 5.62(h) x 1.19(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Superb work."—William L. O'Neill, Rutgers University

"Excellent...convincing, well-written, and thoroughly documented....This social history provides an approach for the study of youth of later decades: the sixties particularly."—Social Science Quarterly

"Should be on the reading list of any United States history course on the period between the two world wars."—Historian

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