The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A.

by Bonnie J. Morris

Book Overview

Writer Kurt Vonnegut once said that high school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else. Our high school reputations--as leaders or scapegoats, good girls or fast girls, popular athletes or feared delinquents--haunt Americans long into adulthood. The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A. offers a look at the high school clubs and social pecking order of postwar Los Angeles, when students' social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897894944
• ISBN13: 9780897894944
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"