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published
1970
(first published 1960)
by Sphere
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Paperback, 238 pages
isbn
0722139446
(isbn13: 9780722139448)
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Read in November, 2000
Despite a few dated allusions to the Beats, this is still one of the most prescient books about modern social conditions. "Perhaps there has not been a failure of communication. Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable," Goodman says, and this notion is the launching-pad for Goodman's analysis of the insufficiency of "the organized society" and its promises to meet the needs of the young. The entire thing remains relevant t
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Read in July, 2008
On the whole, the argument is annoyingly reactionary, but Goodman makes a number of critical points about the repressive nature of mass culture in America. Despite the, at the core of it, weirdly conservative origins, there was enough truth and valid commentary to keep me wrapped up, and indeed entertained over the course of the book.
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Read in August, 2007
Parts of this are still compelling -- and still apply! -- but other bits are really marred by Goodman's major blind spot, his sexism. Nonetheless -- as an interpretation of why America is such a weird, sad, difficult place to grow up, sometimes, despite all the good things we have going for us, this is worth reading.
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Maybe high school isn't all it's cracked up to be. In fact, maybe it's a travesty. A book that doesn't seem, from what I know of it, to have lost any of its relevance over time.
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