Volume 5, Number 11 · January 6, 1966
Kids Without a Country
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in American Society
by Kenneth Keniston
Harcourt, Brace & World, 495 pp., $8.50
In this excellent, original, and lucid work, Kenneth Keniston has undertaken to analyze and explain a phenomenon that has certainly come to engross Americans as never before. The Uncommitted is a study in depth by a gifted and imaginative psychologist of the processes that lead many of our brightest youth to despise and reject the society in which they have grown up and which has afforded them its best opportunities and advantages. He has studied this problem in the following way:
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