Teenagers

Grace Palladino is coeditor of the Samuel Gompers Papers at the University of Maryland and is the author of the prizewinning book Another Civil War.

• * Introduction: Theyre Getting Older Younger Adolescents * The High School Age * Advise and Consent: Building Adolescent Character * A New Deal for Youth: Progressive Education and the National Youth Administration Bobby Soxers * Swing Shift: Bobby Soxers Take the Stage * Andy Hardy Goes To War: Soldiers, Defense Workers, V-Girls, and Zoot Suiters * Do You Know Where Your Children Are?: Juvenile Delinquency, Teen Canteens, and Democratic Solutions Teenagers * The Advertising Age: Seventeen, Eugene Gilbert, and the Rise of the Teenage Market * Great Balls of Fire: Rhythm and Blues, Rock n Roll, and the Devils Music * Stairway to Heaven: The Real Life Business of Rock n Roll * The Perils of Prosperity: Teenage Rebels, Teenage Sex, and the Communist Menace * The Content of Their Character: Black Teenagers and Civil Rights in the South Adversaries * A Hard Days Night: Beatles, Boomers, and the Bomb * Lies My Father Told Me: Berkeley, Vietnam, and the Generation Gap * Up the Down Staircase: Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll * Conclusion: Back to the Future