Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture

Tradition holds that teenagers, as we think of them, were born in the 1950's of rockers and beatniks. In fact, all the basic tenets of the postwar teen life--from consumer passions to emotional unrest--had been in place for more than seventy-five years before that. Teenage is the untold story of the era of ferment, folly, experiemention, and rebellion that allow the Teen Age to separate itself from the rest of society forever.