The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s

by Kriste Lindenmeyer

Book Overview

What was it like growing up in the Great Depression, and how did America's youngest citizens contribute to the history of that fateful decade? In The Greatest Generation Grows Up, Kriste Lindenmeyer shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the course of the 1930s as well as the history of American childhood. For the first time, she notes, federal policy extended childhood dependence through the teen years while cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566636604
• ISBN13: 9781566636605
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"