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The Greatest Generation Grows Up. American Childhood in the 1930's.
Kriste Lindenmeyer
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Hardback. Shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the course of the 1930s as well as the history of American childhood. This book states that federal policy extended childhood dependence through the teen years while cultural changes reinforced this ideal of modern childhood. Series: American Childhoods Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 changes reinforced this ideal of modern childhood. Grade-based grammar schools and high schools expanded rapidly, strengthening age-based distinctions among children and segregating them further from the world of ... Read more
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 changes reinforced this ideal of modern childhood. Grade-based grammar schools and high schools expanded rapidly, strengthening age-based distinctions among children and segregating them further from the world of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
American Childhoods Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636605
SKU
V9781566636605
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About Kriste Lindenmeyer
Kriste Lindenmeyer teaches history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, she has also written A Right to Childhood and edited Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives and Politics of Progress. She lives in Owings Mills, Maryland.
Reviews for The Greatest Generation Grows Up. American Childhood in the 1930's.
A heartening account of a tragic time.
Tom Starnes
Delaware News Journal
Clear and concise.
CHOICE
Vividly told. . . . An eye opener.
Dennie Hall
Oklahoman
A remarkably compelling and enlightening account. . . . The children's experience's were distinguished from each other . . . as Lindenmeyer beautifully demonstrates.
... Read more
Tom Starnes
Delaware News Journal
Clear and concise.
CHOICE
Vividly told. . . . An eye opener.
Dennie Hall
Oklahoman
A remarkably compelling and enlightening account. . . . The children's experience's were distinguished from each other . . . as Lindenmeyer beautifully demonstrates.
... Read more