Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity

Gary Cross

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Paper, 328 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14431-5
$24.50 / £17.00

September, 2008
Cloth, 328 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14430-8
$29.50 / £20.50

Introduction: Where Have All the Men Gone?

1. When Fathers Knew Best (or Did They?)

2. Living Fast, by (Sometimes) Dying Young

3. Talking About My Generation

4. My Generation Becomes the Pepsi Generation

5. New Stories, by New Rebels

6. Endless Thrills

7. Life Beyond Pleasure Island

Acknowledgments

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• Cultural Studies
• Media Studies

About the Author

Gary Cross is professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of a number of books on the history of American popular culture, including The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century; The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture; An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America; and Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing Worlds of American Childhood.

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