What happens if people stop recognising and talking to their neighbours?Why do nods across the street and comments about the weather matter?This book suggests that if people stop being civil to one another wherethey live, a perceived crisis of respect in wider society will probablyfollow.
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945. By Jon Savage. Published byChatto & Windus
In 1945, just as the war was ending, the "teenager" arrived. This booktells the story of how we got to that moment - the century and a half offerment, folly and angst that created a "teen age". John Savage goesback to 1875 (to talk about the first bestselling teenage diarist), andtakes the reader all the way through to the explosion of the atom bomband the death of Anne Frank.
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