Last Season of Innocence - The Teen Experience in the 1960s

Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Teen Life in 1959: The Gateway to the Sixties
Chapter 2: Teen Family Life and Social Life
Chapter 3: High School, USA
Chapter 4: Teen Beat: The Twist to the Beatles
Chapter 5: Teens on Screen
Chapter 6: Teens in Transition: Home Room to Dorm Room
Chapter 7: Teen Consumers and Adolescent Ambassadors
Chapter 8: Coping with the Generation Gap
Chapter 9: The Teen Music Explosion, 1964-1969: Myth and Reality
Chapter 10: Teens at War
Chapter 11: Visualizing Teens, 1964-1969
Chapter 12: Yesterday Once Again: The Sixties Teen Experience as History
Conclusion

About the author

Victor Brooks is professor of history and education at Villanova University. He is the author of ten books, including Boomers: The Cold-War Generation Grows Up; The Fredericksburg Campaign, nominated for the Virginia Literary Prize; and Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific, a feature selection of the History Book Club.

Summary

Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Brooks, Brooks Victor
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2015
• EAN: 9781442255951
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5595-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Age groups: adolescents