Growing Up In America

xxi, [1], 380, [6] pages. DJ has slight wear and is in a plastic sleeve. This is a revealing self-portrait of the student generation. Introduction by Harvey Swados. This includes twenty-three biographical stories and essays that were written by college and university students from across the country. The authors are varied in their themes: childhood, education, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, native ground, leaving home, love, death, black and white, moving, and the scene. What the writers have in common is the intensity of their experience and the candor with which they describe ti. Taken together, their work reflects the rich regional and social variety of American life and provides real insight into what it was like to grown up in America when this work was produced. Robert A. Rosenbaum attended the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University before becoming an editor at a major publishing company. This is the author's fourth book (and third for Doubleday). The final selection of the essays for this volume was based not only on literary excellence but on the nature and quality of the experience described. The result, the editor believed, was a collective self-portrait--incomplete and suggestive--of the then present student generation. The concerns they evidence in these essays are those that experts in personality development might have anticipated--the perennial problems of self-discovery and self-realization. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…