The thesis was interesting, but the author is pretty repetitive and dry. I gave it my best shot, getting about a third of the way through before giving up. On the plus side, I did find some great primary source materials from the bibliography.

I read this for school. It was actually pretty interesting. I plan on rereading it at my leisure.

This book is a must read for those who want to know about American youth in the 1920s.

It's not a read to undertake for pleasure. It's fairly scholarly-written, is chock full of statistics and notes (to look up in the back of the book) on every other page. The research undertaken for this book is phenomenal.

It is written by an History professor from University of California at Berkeley. The insight into the lives of young Americans during that time is invaluable. If you're like me and you are enchanted by this era, although dry and full of numbers and studies etc, this book will deepen your fascination for it.

As a writer who writes a lot of fiction set in this era, it is a must have book. Anybody who writes fiction or non-fiction set in this time has to have this book. You will find it indespensible.

At first, I felt that maybe reading it would take some of the mistique out of the era, but it did not. It deepened my affection for it.

Paula Fass takes us through the social, cultural and sexual changes of the transition from the post Victorian era and into the Plastic Age. The journey she takes us on through the peer politics on university campuses throughout the United States is fascinating.

And all those hippies from the 1960s thought *they* invented cultural liberailism!