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Gary Cross

The Cute and the Cool

Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture

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The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice Buster Brown and the coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans at mid-century offered up a fantastic world of treats, toys, and stories, creating a new image of the child… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-028886-0
  • EAN: 9780190288860
  • Produktnummer: 18399959
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 7'955 KB
  • Abbildungen: 35 halftones

Über den Autor


Author of An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood, and seven other books relating to the history of modern society, Gary Cross is a Distinguished Professor of Modern History at the Pennsylvania State University.

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