Adults who feared losing an ""old America"" regarded youth as damned, while progressives found their ""freedom"" beautiful. Championing individual freedom in private behavior, Twenties' youth dramatically changed American style and sexuality. Fass describes the youth culture, which flourishes when family influence fades and peer group pressure becomes the main socializing force, as a more complicated phenomenon. The familiar Twenties' characters are here but not as simple symbols of alienation. Another book on the roaring Twenties? Yes, but this careful, somewhat labored study of America's first real youth culture-the white, middle-class college students of the Twenties-deepens our understanding of the Scott Fitzgerald scene.
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