The Lost Generation
Book Details
Author(s)Maxine Davis
PublisherHardPress
ISBN / ASIN1406987271
ISBN-139781406987270
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Excerpt from The Lost Generation: A Portrait of American Youth Today
This book is the portrayal of a condition which demands both an immediate remedy and a long-range program, for it deals with that most perishable of all commodities: youth.
In the pages that follow I have endeavored to show the characteristics, the opportunities, the handicaps, the needs, and our chance to help the boys and girls in this country who face the most difficult situation which has ever confronted youth in the history of this nation. I make this statement without forgetting the courage and the hardships of our pioneer forefathers. For it is always easier to do, however arduous and even terrifying the action, than to sit and wait as the young men and women in the depression years have been obliged to mark time.
This volume makes no pretense of scientifically based authority. It is the work of a journalist: the result of observation, analysis, eclecticism, personal opinion, and personal conclusion. For it, I gathered the material as any reporter covers a story: I went out over the country and collected it, adding to my findings the studies and research of some years of journalistic writing in this field.
In a cheap second-hand car I travelled almost four months, alone, over 10,038 miles of the United States, talking with boys and girls every time I could. My encounters were many and pleasant and fortunate. I found them easily, everywhere, as one inevitably must. I sought them out in their schools and in their homes and at their work and play.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This book is the portrayal of a condition which demands both an immediate remedy and a long-range program, for it deals with that most perishable of all commodities: youth.
In the pages that follow I have endeavored to show the characteristics, the opportunities, the handicaps, the needs, and our chance to help the boys and girls in this country who face the most difficult situation which has ever confronted youth in the history of this nation. I make this statement without forgetting the courage and the hardships of our pioneer forefathers. For it is always easier to do, however arduous and even terrifying the action, than to sit and wait as the young men and women in the depression years have been obliged to mark time.
This volume makes no pretense of scientifically based authority. It is the work of a journalist: the result of observation, analysis, eclecticism, personal opinion, and personal conclusion. For it, I gathered the material as any reporter covers a story: I went out over the country and collected it, adding to my findings the studies and research of some years of journalistic writing in this field.
In a cheap second-hand car I travelled almost four months, alone, over 10,038 miles of the United States, talking with boys and girls every time I could. My encounters were many and pleasant and fortunate. I found them easily, everywhere, as one inevitably must. I sought them out in their schools and in their homes and at their work and play.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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