Vanguards & Followers: Youth in the American Tradition

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Transaction Publishers, 1995 M01 1 - 257 pages
This title is the first thorough attempt to explore the long history of youth as a community in competition with adult society. Louis Filler looks back to the fundamental social, economic, and cultural conditions that created opportunities for youthful expressions. The first part of the book is an analysis of early dissident activities from the seventeenth century to World War II. He shows that youth movements were a part of American society almost from its beginnings. The second part of the book centers on the quarter century after the war. Filler examines the postwar climate that helped stimulate the youth eruption.
 

Contents

Young America
1
Outlaws Bohemians and Libertarians
13
Classic Era The Young Idea
33
Classic Era Youth under Stress
55
Youth in Boom Times and in Depression
69
The Times They Are AChangin
103
Youth Eruption
143
Retrospect and Outlook
189
Perspectives on Youth
207
Bibliographical Essay
221
Afterword
247
Index
251
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