The rampant age, Robert Carr, 1928 - Jazz Age youth culture, jeunesse américaine 1920, belle reliure
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The rampant age, Robert Carr - novel - Antique leather binding - belle reliure ancienne en cuir à quatre nerfs, plats et pages de garde dominotés - Set in Long Island, by an eighteen year-old American indicting the Jazz Age youth culture. Basis for 1930 film of the same name directed by Phil Rosen, and featuring James Murray, Merna Kennedy, and Eddie Borden. "These ae the colourful clays from which the men and women of tomorrow must be moulded. These are not the college-age rebels -these are the actual Younger Generation, the children in their teens. These are the riotous growths of very new thimber, born to and rooted in that sneering revolt agains old standards and conventions which has steadily been growing more apparent since the World War. These youngsters of the Prohibition Era have grown to adolescence with open law-defiance all about them - that, and a general deterioration of moral standards on the part of their elders. These are your children and your neighbour's children, oh condemned grown-ups ! The aloof and laughing young people you pass on the side walks of the cities you have builded, or see driving Fords over muddy roads to country hig schools - how are they faring ? What do they do behind the back which you so consistently keep turned upon them ? edition William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1928. #Ameran youth, #American youth 1920, #Jazz age youth culture, #jeunesse américaine, #jazz culture, #jeunesse américaine 1920, #antique book, #antique leather book, #english books, #belle reliure cuir, #littérature américaine, #écrivain américain.
The rampant age, Robert Carr - novel - Antique leather binding - belle reliure ancienne en cuir à quatre nerfs, plats et pages de garde dominotés -
Set in Long Island, by an eighteen year-old American indicting the Jazz Age youth culture. Basis for 1930 film of the same name directed by Phil Rosen, and featuring James Murray, Merna Kennedy, and Eddie Borden.
"These ae the colourful clays from which the men and women of tomorrow must be moulded. These are not the college-age rebels -these are the actual Younger Generation, the children in their teens. These are the riotous growths of very new thimber, born to and rooted in that sneering revolt agains old standards and conventions which has steadily been growing more apparent since the World War. These youngsters of the Prohibition Era have grown to adolescence with open law-defiance all about them - that, and a general deterioration of moral standards on the part of their elders.
These are your children and your neighbour's children, oh condemned grown-ups ! The aloof and laughing young people you pass on the side walks of the cities you have builded, or see driving Fords over muddy roads to country hig schools - how are they faring ? What do they do behind the back which you so consistently keep turned upon them ?
Gone are the bridles with which you might earlier have cubed and controlled these last-borns. How were they lost ? Who is to blame ?
Survey, then, these mad yong strangers whom you have brought into the world, oh smugly horrified parents of America !
edition William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1928. #Ameran youth, #American youth 1920, #Jazz age youth culture, #jeunesse américaine, #jazz culture, #jeunesse américaine 1920, #antique book, #antique leather book, #english books, #belle reliure cuir, #littérature américaine, #écrivain américain.
Description : livre relié, dos et coins de couverture en cuir fin, plats de couverture et pages de garde dominotés, 332 pages, format 18,5 cm x 12,5 cm. bon état. le cuir est légèrement frotté. annotation manuscrite sur la page de garde.
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The rampant age, Robert Carr - novel - Antique leather binding - belle reliure ancienne en cuir à quatre nerfs, plats et pages de garde dominotés - Set in Long Island, by an eighteen year-old American indicting the Jazz Age youth culture. Basis for 1930 film of the same name directed by Phil Rosen, and featuring James Murray, Merna Kennedy, and Eddie Borden. "These ae the colourful clays from which the men and women of tomorrow must be moulded. These are not the college-age rebels -these are the actual Younger Generation, the children in their teens. These are the riotous growths of very new thimber, born to and rooted in that sneering revolt agains old standards and conventions which has steadily been growing more apparent since the World War. These youngsters of the Prohibition Era have grown to adolescence with open law-defiance all about them - that, and a general deterioration of moral standards on the part of their elders. These are your children and your neighbour's children, oh condemned grown-ups ! The aloof and laughing young people you pass on the side walks of the cities you have builded, or see driving Fords over muddy roads to country hig schools - how are they faring ? What do they do behind the back which you so consistently keep turned upon them ? edition William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1928. #Ameran youth, #American youth 1920, #Jazz age youth culture, #jeunesse américaine, #jazz culture, #jeunesse américaine 1920, #antique book, #antique leather book, #english books, #belle reliure cuir, #littérature américaine, #écrivain américain.