The Damned and the Beautiful

American Youth in the 1920s

By: Paula S. Fass

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Paperback | 1 February 1978

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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.

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"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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Age Groups Age Groups for Adolescents

Introduction: Youth in the 1920's	p. 3
The Plastic Age
The Children of Our Discontent	p. 13
The Family Redivivus: 1880-1930	p. 53
The World of Youth: The Peer Society	p. 119
Work and Play in the Peer Society	p. 168
Flappers and Philosophers
Competition and Conformity in the Peer Culture	p. 225
Sexual Mores in the World of Youth	p. 260
Symbols of Liberation	p. 291
The Politics of Cultural Liberalism	p. 327
Conclusion: Change and Stability	p. 365
Notes	p. 379
Index	p. 489
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