The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920's

by Paula S. Fass

Book 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195024923
• ISBN13: 9780195024920
• Release Date: February 1979
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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This is one of the books my daughter needed for one of her classes at OSU. It is one that she will keep.

An excellent study of the flaming youth

This well researched and well written study of young people in the 1920's is indespensable to anyone who is interested in the social history of the period. It examines all facets of the "flaming youth" of the period, and offers careful analysis of the people and period. Ms. Fass uses a broad range of original sources to construct her detailed work. Despite it's breadth and depth, it is also easy and fun enough for anyone to read. This book is absolutely indespensable to anyone who enjoys Fitzgerald, the history of young people, 20th century social history, or the 1920's.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST STUDY OF ITS KIND

When I was writing my book COMPLICATED WOMEN, I started looking for books that talked about what was happening with youth in the early part of the 20th century. THE DAMNED AND THE BEAUTY had everything I needed to know. Fass's research is thorough and impeccable, and she's a fine writer. I leaned heavily on this book and on Fass's research. I read other books, plenty of them, but kept coming back to this one. Anyone interested in the 1920s should read this. No scholar who writes about the 20s should dare pass this up.