Teenage the Creation of Youth 1875-1945

In 1945, Just As the War Was Ending, 'The Teenager' Arrived. This is the Story of How We Got to That Moment - the Century and a Half of Ferment, Folly, and Angst That Created a Separate Teen Age in Europe and America. Jon Savage Goes Back to 1875 (When the First Bestselling Teenage Memoir Appeared and the First Teenage Mass Murderer Was Tried), and Takes Us All the Way Through to the Death of Anne Frank. in Between We Roam London, New York, Paris and Berlin With Hooligans, Apaches, and Other Gangs; Explore Free Love With Rupert Brooke and Eternal Youth With Peter Pan; See Commerce and Advertising Grab a New Market and Watch the Relentless Militarisation of Youth, From the Boy Scouts to the Hitler Youth.Savage Describes All Ranks and Kinds of People, From Flappers and Zootsuiters to the Bright Young Things, the Unemployed and the Lost Generation. the Book Rings With Music, From Ragtime to Swing, and the Stories Come Fast and Furious, Comic, Poignant, Painfully Moving. Following the Endl